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Flowstone
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Flowstone, a collaborative project by Hannah Newman and Susan Murrell, explores the end of day as it relates to the end of days. Sunsets depicted as solitary figures, propagate into a forest or family of stalagmites. The sunset in Flowstone is depicted in multiple ways – as a sculptural figure embedded with sediment, a flat movie-poster double, a cast shadow, and the absence of the form itself. Whether the light show cues a romantic conclusion to the hero’s journey or a pause in the everyday, sunsets hold the promise of endless repetition while evoking nostalgia, beauty, melancholy, and hope.
Murrell and Newman confuse the boundaries of body, land, and sky, intent on scrambling the well-worn territories of landscape painting and figurative sculpture. Through this lens, the artists explore multiplicity in meaning and question the role of perception, personal choice, and over-simplification within expansive issues. To stave off dread regarding the future state of the world, they play at reimagining an unknown future where expectations have been upended, geologic time prevails, and commonalities between flesh, air, and stone abound.
In the neon glow of Flowstone, real and flat spaces collide, landscape becomes figure, and the sunset is both an ending and a beginning.