On a related note, do you have an overall vision or theme for the show yet, or is that still in the works?

Yes, the title is suggestive of one of many themes that I noticed running through almost everyone’s work: that of layers, of choosing what to reveal and what to conceal, both conceptually and visually. Some people are working more traditionally in terms of surfaces; drawing, painting, printing, weaving etc. others are creating spaces and videos. Everyone, however, could be seen as approaching the idea of a surface as something to be dug into, or to exist underneath or above. I’m thinking of surface as a fluid concept. Actually I didn’t arrive at surface until I stumbled across a description of the Sun:

‘From the center out, the layers of the Sun are as follows: the solar interior composed of the core, the radiative zone, and the convective zone, then there is the visible surface known as the photosphere, the chromosphere, and finally the outermost layer, the corona.’

I’m a sappy sucker so I thought it was a poetic description, and a beautiful thought that the sun has more than one surface, and our naked eye can see only one. Above and below the surfaces are more layers, all of which are imperative to the whole, yet it’s the third surface that meets our eye.

So that’s one theme, but dig around and there are so many more, this is a small group of people covering a wide range of topics and ideas.

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