Save the date: November 16, 2017 is the opening of “what happens in a dark place” a two-person show with Serrah Russell and me, Alyson Provax, at Seattle gallery The Vestibule.
It was eclipse season, as the astronomers say. The word comes from ekleípō, “I abandon, got missing, vanish.” An eclipse is a disappearance, and disappearances are not simple math: without the sun the whole world is changed. I wanted to document this: my anticipation, the indescribable power of the moment, my feeling afterward that everything is different although visibly returned to normal, and then that moment when my memory fades and it is truly gone.