“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough.  We want something else which can hardly be put into words–to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” – C.S. Lewis.

In Kate’s work this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our contemporary impact on the environment.  Her pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops.  They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones.

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Michael Joo’s work investigates the concepts of identity and knowledge in a hybrid contemporary world. He creates narratives that explore places, people and objects through reinterpreting perception: why do we perceive as we perceive – science and religion, nature versus human intervention, fact versus fiction, high and low culture, sex, and death.

Kimberly Witham and her vanitas realized with real dead animals.

Alvaro Sanchez. Part of the illustrations series for the upcoming poetry plaquette Orgánica Palabra of Guatemalan poet Rafael Romero, 2012

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Ben Giles and his vintage collages.

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Halloween, South Side, 1951, Chicago. Yasuhiro Ishimoto.

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