FUTURE ANCESTORS: Blythe King

OPENING: Friday, Nov. 5, 7-9 pm

OPEN HOUSE: Saturday, Nov. 6, 1-4 pm

VIRTUAL OPENING: Thursday, Nov. 4, 7 pm (Eric Schindler Gallery Facebook)

Time is a being — like you, like me.

“Monahwee made friends with Time. When he got on his horse to race his beloved warrior friends, they had a little talk. Time said, “Get on my back and we’ll fly free.” No matter how fast the others raced, Monahwee and his horse always arrived long before it was possible. Those were the best of times.” Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.

'“Time is not always the way we imagine it to be. Our experience may appear sequential, but that is not the full experience. How do we connect with time, be time, as opposed to understanding the past, present, and future as separate from ourselves? Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: beings, things, and events are times.” Shinshu Roberts, Being-Time.

“Indigenous and Zen Buddhist approaches to time offer breaks from the usual linear understanding of it. It’s multidimensional and living, like you and me. Time is not a river running inexorably to the sea, but the sea itself — its tides that appear and disappear, the fog that rises to become rain in a different river. All things that were will come again.” Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.

Future Ancestors connects us to time by simultaneously merging past, present, and future. Each woman is both unique and universal — history and prophecy. She is born moons ago, drifts through oblivion, and resurfaces anew. She lives for the future.

Exhibition runs November 5 - 27, 2021.