Still-Time

Still-Time, from fiber artist Morgan Rice, considers the intersections between ecology and social construction through tapestry and collage on fabric. Using colorful abstraction and repetitive geometric shapes, the works presented in Still-Time depict varying degrees of scale and perception to discuss the ecological implications of human constructs such as time and money. Embroidered mosaics function like microscope slides or petri dishes for examining nature’s infinite methods of keeping time without the use of mechanical clocks; fabric medallions pasted like pointillism atop an old bed sheet create an undersea subconscious; and antique coins, imprinted with motifs of plant and animal life and arranged on muslin, suggest the flattening of life on earth by humanity’s relentless commodification of it. Collectively, the works highlight the beauty and necessity of patient accumulation and natural regenerative rhythms, and suggest that the Western urgency to mechanize and insulate humanity from nature is antithetical to life itself (including our own).

Opening reception Oct 04 at 6:00pm

Host or Publisher Morgan Rice