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Heat Things Up With Desire at the Blanton [Art Preview]
Georgetown photographer Ann Texter breaks the bonds of time, space, and myth by carefully editing Victorian photographs, transforming the elegant relics into souvenirs of interdimensional travel. In "Cosmic Love" she delivers a head-spinning sense of the unpredictable dynamic between the Moon and Earth, whose gazes pull at each other with unbreakable force, though their rigid human bodies stand still. Texter's "The Man Who Fell" features a smitten scuba diver who, sitting comfortably beside a fully-corseted mermaid, has chosen this love over breathing. The piece "Passion Becomes Her" offers a startling insight into the act of looking at the objects of our affection.
Mixed media artist Jacqueline May plays with colors, textures, and even Braille to create unique, immersive works. Her pieces "The Secret Love," "The Golden Spiral," and "Fish in Love," all softly endeavor to stretch our perceptions of how we communicate with our surroundings.
Faustinus Deraet's black-and-white photography explores some of the most unfathomable aspects of being alive. "Abandoning Ania" shows a wall with the word "love" scrawled across it gigantically, and a swaddled baby alone beneath it. One of the exhibit's most visceral portrayals of love and remembrance is in the corner of the gallery, where a table covered in fallen leaves names soldiers and Iraqi civilians who have died in this raging war. The writing, small as is needed to accommodate the volume of names, requires a magnifying glass to read. Anyone whose loved ones have been killed in the war are invited to write that person's name on a fallen leaf.
Love's Writ reminds us that there are infinite forms of love, and even more ways to express them. Whether you thirst for a fearless burst of color or the inviting shadows of black and white, some stanzas with your pictures or the images alone, commentary on the state of the world or the state of the heart, you will not close this artistic candy bag without finding a message that resonates with you.
Love's Writ is on display at Studio2Gallery through February 14th.
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