Lydia Kern: PASSAGES

Exhibition on view during events and by appointment through June 25th.

Artist Statement:  "My work honors the loss and tension that transformative processes require through sculptural installation works that are in relationship to the body in scale and material. My process reflects on acts of care as I collect, reclaim, and prepare materials and objects to exist in new relationships with one another, creating a weighty yet ephemeral material poetic. My current body of work is influenced by meditations on love and grief, mysticism, Celtic mythology, quilting bees and rose gardens. Together, the works form a large physical poem the viewer can walk within, composed of large sewn portals or reliquaries. These works embody multiple translations: from emotion to language, language to material, and material back to emotion for the viewer. My work has led me to forage in dumpsters, compost piles, apothecaries, free boxes, fabric stores, and florist shops.…