I recently had a conversation with a friend who lives in Hilo, and he was talking about the number of people who completely remove all their body hair, and all I could think of was how sad that people had become so visually cued, thanks to television and the movies, that they had forgotten about the pleasures of touch.
The bear-rug shapes suggested our affinity with animals and hair as fur. They also had a nice mappy quality up there on the wall. (To have put them on the floor would have been transgressive, indeed.)
By the way, look closely at that picture at the top of Wallace and you will see he’s got one of the lockets around his neck.
Outside, there’s a flag from Angie Evans that will fly until Aug. 12, then to be replaced by another artist’s contribution (Wallace isn’t telling whose, yet). The flags are part of a series called “Temporary Allegiance,” curated by Philip von Zweck. A small number of artists responded to the open call for submissions at this time when flag waving seems to be disturbing the peace. Each flag will hang for one week at a time and afterward, all the flags will be shown as a group. This one, named “What’s that Flag?” is a big question mark.