the air in our lungs & the insects that walk in Her grass // Aly K. Benson

In this interpretive essay, Aly K. Benson explores Cree-Métis artist Lara Felsing’s exhibition Shallow Breaths through the lens of reciprocity, positioning the land as both a teacher and a living witness to humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Benson explores how Indigenous knowledge, sensory memory, and ecological responsibility shape our understanding of environmental stewardship, urging viewers to recognize both the beauty of the Earth and the collective grief of ecological disruption.

A Gesture Toward Resonance // Andrew Stauffer

In this interpretive essay, Andrew Stauffer poses that despite global crises, art remains vital by functioning like ritual. Ritual and art both foster meaning, connection, and collective will, countering the effects of societal paralysis. I Hear a Silent Dissonance by Woojae Kim exemplifies this theory by offering immersive experiences that blur self and world, nurturing relational awareness and hopeful resonance.

Untethered Abstraction: Weather Window Echo Hum // Michelle Weinstein

In this interpretive essay, Michelle Weinstein explores how Weather, Window, Echo, Hum by Katherine Pickering, unsettles the binaries of abstract painting: form and content, blur and solid, mind and eye. Through sanding, stitching, and weathering, her process fuses memory with material, transforming abstraction into an excavation where beauty, loss, and perception quietly converge.

Essays

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