![]() ![]() She places a piece of Plexiglas over the material against a tree or wall. The pictures in this show are made on Mylar. She employs wood, metal, paper and fabric, rather unusual materials for photography. This theme is carried further by Eleanor Sweeney, but from a wholly different perspective. They are ultimately about the metaphysics of mindfulness and reflection. Not a frenetic type, but one that is calming and uplifting, a release from the past and future, allowing yourself to fully be in the here and now, but not entirely in the gallery space. Spend enough time, and you'll find they radiate a stillness that is filled with so much energy. The imagery is culled from the Sanskrit "Pushpam Veda" that expresses water as the basis of flower offerings to the deities. Here, she displays large-scale C-prints from a recent project "There's More to Life Than Increasing Its Speed! We need each other here!" They depict flower mandalas projected onto the hands of yoga students held in various mudras - symbolic hand gestures - while practicing yogic breathing. Her work is inspired in part by the practice of yoga. Suran Song's meditative explorations expand on this notion. When our senses are confronted by these colorful innerscapes of something beyond our perception, there is sense of wonder. It's easy to get lost in her images as you focus on the tiny structures. A tarantula's leg becomes wistful feathers. She then enhances the original prints, adding an aesthetic flair to the microbes. ![]() Working at the most diminutive level, Dee Breger's images are made using a scanning electron microscope to magnify specimens 30,000 times. In doing so, the layers of content emerge well beyond the gallery's walls, pushing down the artificial boundaries of the built environment. ![]() From different points of view and methods, a trio of artists expands our understanding of the world beyond our immediate sight, a vast place that encompasses much of the universe. ![]()
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