JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 21
EVENING
This new series of works is inspired by the evening sky and the quiet transformation of light and atmosphere as it deepens into night. It is a liminal time that brings both rest and melancholy, closing the day but also opening space for contemplation, mystery and beauty.
The exhibition title derives from the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. The poem ‘Evening” is a metaphor for introspection and transformation and the tension between the mortal and the eternal and invites quiet reflection of the soul’s dual nature- both finite and infinite, both burdened and aspiring, both stone and star.
‘EVENING’
Slowly the evening puts on the clothes
held for it by a ridge of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands divide from you,
one going heavenward one sinking down;
and leave you, not quite belonging to either,
not quite so dark as the house clocked in silence,
not quite so surely pledging the eternal
as that which becomes star each night and climbs-
and leave you (inexpressibly to untangle)
your life, immense and ripening and fearful,
so that now closed in, now reaching everywhere,
it grows alternately stone in you and star.
Rainer Maria Rilke
(Translation by Edward Snow)