Carli Holcomb
“By the Light of the Moon”
July 2020-August 2020
Opening July 9,2020
I have long been fascinated by the gesture of water. Reaching out just before pulling back again. It is so much like the human touch. “By the light of the moon” is a meditation on thresholds, edges, lines, and the spaces where one thing shifts to become another. This exhibition was inspired by a rainy month spent in the Canadian Rockies lost amongst the glacial silt-filled lakes. They are so mysterious in their opaque depth. It was almost as if you could slip into the icy waters and open your eyes on the other side to a different world. Their edges seemed so solid despite their constant shifting. The gesture of opaque water reaching and receding exposed layers of sand, rock, and fallen trees, a glimpse of stability no matter how tenuous. Each night I would sit by the water watching the quiet shift from day into night. I long to return to those cosmos dripped shorelines. As I was working on “By the light of the moon,” it eventually began to take the shape of that longing. A meditation on water, dappled constellations, unknown geometry, tectonic plates, and all of those solid things that drift through their own quiet oceans, as if nothing is fixed.
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