MARROW | GRAIN

Artist Talk & Sound Performance | October 19 from 4-6 PM

Closing Reception with Performance | October 30 from 2-6 PM

MARROW  | GRAIN is an exhibition by mother and daughter, Colleen Plumb and Ruth Plumb, which endeavors to recognize the invisible forces and elements of the Earth. Through tree, rock, waters, and fire, they listen and pay attention to the more-than-human beings that entangle and connect us at this moment in time. In distant and close conversation, Colleen and Ruth acknowledge time scales beyond human perception and the experiences of natural forces that teach us to live in close connection to the Earth.

MARROW: A series of experiments with collected Sycamore tree material from the blocks where Colleen lives in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. The exhibition includes Photograms made from many-seasons worth of shed Sycamore bark; an installation of deadfall branches skinned raw; photographs and video of bark in transition to ash; and knots like knuckle-bones—peeled, washed and charred.

GRAIN: A writing, an installation, a video, and a sound performance reflect Ruth’s ongoing consideration of the movement and transformation of sand grains as a model of the ceaseless turnover and regeneration of nature, the Earth, and the cosmos across time. The lyric essay Grain, ponders the forces that create pattern and movement while the installation Groundwind Shadow strives to acknowledge the aliveness of all earthly material. Exploring sand, ice, water, wind—geological indications of cyclic alchemy—can reveal the vast and grand interconnectedness of life, form, energy, and time.

Visitors to the space will walk through a projection of fire on glass front window, step among the grounding sand grain-ribs sculpted across the floor, view color and b&w photographic prints in surround, pass corners with branch-forests pressed dense, and enter a back space with video of a moving body of water.

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