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Opening reception: September 13 @ 7:00 pm
Peaty and tannic, soft and saturated with water, a bog is place brimming with life forms, yet built up on a bed of decay. Veils of a Bog is a collaboration between artists Vanessa Brown and Michelle Helene Mackenzie that combines Brown’s material practice in sculpture with Mackenzie’s multi-channel sound composition Post Meridiem. Slowly rotating in a dark gallery, three steel armatured mobiles, clad with paper, fabric, leaves and moss are suspended in an aural wash of crickets, toads, birds and a blanket of droning tones to imagine the bog as a …