What is it about corn husks, besides their enticing shade of light green, fanlike spread on the pile, and their capacity to protect? For me, it is much more than the reassuring taste of what they contain. It has to do with their history, and the fact that corn was originally a gift from the indigenous people who lived in New England to my people, who showed up 500 years ago, unannounced and unprepared. The results were not pretty. I am deeply grateful for the gift of corn then and now. Though today it has a different purpose, perhaps, inspiring a new point of view on the conversations that gift started centuries ago. Who has the right to what land and for what purpose? And who is going to care for it? It is an honor that later today I will be among friends new and old, celebrating these Compost Compositions. They are at once framed compositions of color, shape and texture as well as narratives about what it means to live in our world today - - the beauty and the mess of it all. Some days it feels more beautiful than others. Today, I choose to see the beauty of what is, not just in the compost pile, but in my life. Please come see the show at AVA Gallery. It's really cool. And also, please
take a moment this weekend to express gratitude for all those before us who made our current harvests possible.
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Douglas Shane
10/24/2019 01:26:51 pm
Proof that Beauty is everywhere and that the imaginative eye will find and capture it.
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Evelyn R. Swett
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