Kristen Van Deventer: Les Mis
@ Regards
2216 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, May 19th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, June 30th
The room has a particular sound and scent I can’t yet place. But it has absorbed everything. All the big ones – memory, metaphor, nostalgia, empathy – into a dusky yellow.
I see it now as a slipping in. Slipping into a melody or a somebody, into a joke or a night or a flower. When color slips in, I see it laying on the surface of a thread, pooling in the center, digging deep there, seeping through, while the edges remain barely touched, young.
A color may appear differently on a plate than on a bowl. Orange may look darker on a dress than on a sheet. Become a lighter hue or another name altogether.
Combinations of forms – light hitting a wet street, deciduous trees littering hills, triangular sails pointing away from jetties – even these abstractions hold tight. But not until you call it by its name, leave and return, does home do this.
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