Experience the lush and surreal vision by Vanessa Filley in her interactive exhibition, “The Possibility of Multitudes”.
Join us for several receptions:
Saturday, October 5, 5-8pm with the artist
Saturday, November 2, 5-8pm without the artist
Thursday, November 14, 7-8pm Artist talk including poetry reading and Q&A
“I am interested in the remnants, the symbols of our culture, repurposing and resurrecting them, telling the story of the beauty and destruction of what was, the great possibility of the human experiment, what we have sought to create and the tragedy of our failing as we shred limb from limb the ecosystems of this great planet, leaving behind fewer species, a lonelier existence on this pale blue dot.”
Possibility of Multitudes
I dreamt there was a thread
It ran through each of us
Tied one to the next to the next
Crossed over and back
Forming a web
Strung us up
Together
Hovering just above the ground
We were tethered
To the here and now
Yet undone
Lifted into another time
This sense
Of substance
A piece of connective tissue
In which dismantled by breath and blood
We are both made and destroyed by the lightness of being
So much possibility in our hands
And the things that firmly root us
Now we gather stories and knot threads
Seek to define something
Maybe non-human in its consciousness
Which makes our being possible
Starlings, Cedar and Sycamore
Cerulean tides
Change tumbling through and
The moon that also rises
In puddles stand our reflections
Then another
Linking us past to present
The wisp of futures
Thriving and deceased
And what spills forth is the order of things
It is the matter of timing
That unfolds our answers
And we dive and dive again
Into the eye of the storm
To stoke living from our anguish
-Vanessa filley
