November 18 - January 8, 2022
From Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art:
“Ghosts in Common revisits recurring themes in Kysa’s work, the steady cycles of transformation and collapse at all scales and the similarities that connect them.
Using a base pattern of particle decay patterns, this new series uses these fundamental, infinitesimal marks to explore these ideas through the lens of parallel world events and common objects across the 14th century and today.
Whereas the series like The Long Goodbye use these fundamental marks of dissolution and transformation to mine those processes at the cosmic scale, Ghosts In Common uses imagery from both periods interchangeably to explore the echoes of shared human experience across the ages.
Both times of political upheaval, transformation and plague (especially in Europe and Asia), humans today are experiencing many of the things those 700 some odd years ago were as they interact with many common daily objects that have transformed little. Quarantines, rogue militias, and the perils of a top heavy society surrounded them as they do us. They cooked, grew gardens, supped from bowls and burned their rubbish, hoping to survive and thrive as we do.
By focusing her eye to different moments in time whether they are centuries or millions of lightyears away, Kysa is always trying to understand what is it to be human in the universe? What is it to be human in history? What are the unifiers? What is shared by the bowl that holds our broth and the nebula that spawns the elements that make it, and us? What are our ghosts in common?”
Reception: November 18, 2021 | 6–8 pm
3465 B West Alabama
Houston, 77027 Texas
832–740-4288
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