We had our first open to everybody exhibition this week which was lovely after having to limit invitations because of the pandemic last year. Thank you Marion Weymes and Tomasz Dobiszewski for showing your unique works. As usual it was a one night only show which was followed by a party at the residency. After no parties for two years this one was very joyous!
Four gods in the distance, each stands for a kindness• painted in residency with The Lakkos Project, a read on the apocalypse stories in scripture, where they say the Four Horsemen will announce the end by riding in with war and famine, conquest and death. Babies here we are ! But my read, is that the verses aren’t there to warn us of these four omens in and of themselves, but to provide us with the answers to our own survival. If we knew what was coming, rather than center our religions around fearing this *inevitable* end, why not use this story to build and fortify our answers to the ‘four’• it is said at the end, there will be insects the size of horses, and in my world they have grown this large to carry our embodied saviors as they bring their antitheses to the 4 horsemen. They are mantises, known by the Greek folk name ‘St Mary’s horses’. My Marys are They, that are not the men, and were left out of these old tales. My four are based on the ancient humors of Greek medicine, the nurturing needed to repair each of our four ‘bodily’ systems:: blood: the sanguine, analytically thoughtful and beacon of hope• phlegm/water: bearing calm ease and good judgement• yellow bile: the principles of digestion, cycling through the old to the new, and transformation• and black bile, solidifying dose of honesty, melancholy, an ability to look at the sometimes harsh truth of our reality through our art and thoughtful introspection.
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