MAM Day IX Composition, Decomposition

This is an announcement of an upcoming Adamant Co-op Gallery show, titled Composition, Decomposition in which I have a few pieces:

“We plan, arrange, construct, compose; create order for the eye, the ear, the life. Yet nothing lasts forever. Breakdown is inevitable — sometimes random, sometimes planned. 

Our spring exhibit at the Adamant Co-op Gallery considers Composition and Decomposition through music, painting, assemblage, photography, collage, and interactive and still life installations. By putting these works in conversation with each other, we hope to enhance viewers’ appreciation of the specific works and artwork in general. 

Work by Liz Benjamin • Heidi Broner • Paul Cate • Joni Clemons • Ruth Coppersmith • Cathleen Daley • Lois Eby • Karen Kane • Janet MacLeod • Susan Bull Riley • John Snell • Kep Taylor • Dan Thorington

Exhibit dates are March 15 – April 15, with an opening reception onSaturday, March 21, 1-3pm. 

** SPECIAL EVENT: Liz Benjamin will present a professional recording of GONE, GONE, her original composition for viola and piano, at 1:45 at the opening reception  **

We hope you can join us!

All our best from the gallery,

Janet MacLeod, Joni Clemons, Karen Kane”

Here are a few pieces of my art work that will be in the Adamant gallery “Composition, Decomposition” show.

Hope maybe some of you locals will stop by to see the show. For the rest of you here’s a glimpse of the pieces I will have in the show with titles and descriptions:

Loss of Flight

Butterfly wings found on Sodom Pond Road nested in a ceramic bowl covered with a glass plate (to protect them from my cat.)

Wedding Remnants

This assemblage represents remnants of a Jewish wedding.
The dried flower the memory of joy and beauty now faded; the broken glass a symbol of the traditional end to a Jewish wedding where a wineglass is stepped on and crushed. This act has many possible meanings: It signifies endings and new beginnings; the balancing of immense joy with deep solemnity; a reminder of the fragility of life and relationships.
The ribbon could be a piece of the wedding chuppah (canopy). All is enclosed in a glass case protected but still ephemeral.

What Remains

This is an assemblage of bits and pieces of natural objects left on the earth after they have begun to decompose – eggshells, seaweed, moss, a snakeskin, and a bat skeleton, all in a belljar.
A somewhat apocalyptic vision.

Here is another bat composition not in the show.

Bat skeletons line dancing

And another Decomposition/Composition

Photo of a burnt out tractor in my neighbor’s yard transformed into a drawing of a crab. Wonder what the little crab in the corner thinks…

That’s all for now. Think I’ll compose myself to sleep.💤

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