This exhibition features two works (“Kesh” and “Layover”) by artist Vanessa Renwick and is hosted by Galapago Space.
"Kesh"
Always Coming Home A white dog with blue eyes, returning home when old. A people at home in the left coast wilds as the animals they are. Some half human. North Owl, half person, raised by a woman of the matriarchal Valley, fathered by a passing Condor warrior. She said to me, "I am here". Little Bear Woman, Ursula. Leaping over and through, negative as positive, dreaming our flooded future's past. Lullabies on wings soaring forward. Ravens slowly spinning, slicing, a dance suspended. To go is to return.” -Vanessa Renwick
This video was made for the re-release on LP of the cassette of "Music and Poetry of the Kesh", a soundtrack that Todd Barton and Ursula K. Le Guin made to accompany her book "Always Coming Home"
"Layover"
A swan song for the factory age. Every autumn, a South America-bound colony of Vaux’s Swifts numbering in the tens of thousands enjoy a layover in a Portland, Oregon elementary school chimney. Sunset brings a vortex of swirling shapes, whose each tiny piece combines to form a hypnotic, ever-changing pattern; an equinoctial rhythm beats in every swoop of the organic overhead spiral. The defunct industrial chimney is our own demise, and yet the relentless, fluid choreography of the tiny migrants signals a new start, the turning wheel.
