This Sunday brought the closing of ATHICA's most recent exhibition entitled "Transience: The Paradox of Being." A strong collection of works was presented including installation, video, photography, mixed media painting, sound, and text. Pictured above is an angle of Rebecca Murtaugh's "Breath." Its span of plastic-dipped matchsticks seemed to emerge from the wall like tiny, halted arrows. Directly in front of Murtaugh's work was the exhibition's central piece, artist Young Kim's "Salt and Earth." Kim formed ten earthbound plateaus of pure salt and applied screened portraits to their surfaces(below). Each person in portrait was a stranger that Kim met and photographed on the street. Many of the portraits showed signs of erosion due to the exhibitions interactive, one and a half month run.
By late afternoon on this day, complete erosion of Kim's "Salt and Earth" was happily completed by an eager group of young art lovers in the span of about three minutes. The destruction was followed by a calm, strong, and curious improvised duet by Gaelyn Hurd and Julie Rothschild. The two dancers moved over and through the salt to the percussion of Louis Romanos.
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