HOSTS OF CREATURES

If you’ve been by the galleries to see the Green Shadow exhibition, you might remember being greeted by the scent of earth as you walked into the Center. The aroma came from a soft sculpture, Lattice, that soaked up sunlight and sprouted wheat grass from undulating tubes placed in a linear fashion on the gallery floor. Lattice was a beautiful installation that represented a lack of permanence and the ephemeral life cycle that echoes our own realities. As its grass grew green, Lattice became a popular destination for our gallery visitors of all shapes and sizes including flys, ants and hosts of other creatures..

After a month and a half of being on display in the Center’s gallery, the living sculpture became home to an impressive array of insects. Although we love green, we decided that inside the gallery might not make the best home for our new tenants, so with the artist’s permission, the sculpture was relocated to our front walk where our two-legged visitors could walk by the work of art, and our flying friends could come and go as they please.