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SUMMARY:Confluence – Loren Schwerd
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We displayed our treasure in jars on the window sill to catch the sunlight.\nDuring the remaining weeks of my visit I encountered many troubling but beautiful examples of the sea’s capacity to reform and ornament refuse. A small fishing boat had survived its long journey across the Pacific intact, but its once smooth contours were now heavily festooned with goose barnacles. Turbulent weavings of fishing line and buoy, driftwood and kelp regularly emerged at low tide.\nThe works in Confluence aspire to embody the chaos and intricacy of those transfigured objects. They are amalgams of natural and synthetic elements. Entwined by methods drawn from net making, basketry, and needle lace, they balance suggestions of craft and accrual, and of human agency and complicity. They reflect the unnerving beauty and ambiguity that lured me to reclaim the discarded matter and to consider the implications of such a conversion.\nIn planning this exhibition for the ACA Side Gallery, I was inspired to use the space framed by its prominent columns. Drift visualizes the ghost vessel I encountered on Lincoln Beach being swept across the convergence zone by the powerful Kuroshio “Black Current” and North Pacific Currents.\n			\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				@media only screen and (min-width: 981px){ .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_title, .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image{max-width:83.5%;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;} .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image img{width:100%;} }@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 980px){ .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_title, .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image{max-width:83.5%;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;} .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image img{width:100%;} }@media only screen and (max-width: 767px){ .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_title, .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image{max-width:83.5%;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;} .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image img{width:100%;} }@media only screen and (min-width: 981px){ .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item{margin-bottom:5.5%!important;} }@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 980px){ .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item{margin-bottom:5.5%!important;} }@media only screen and (max-width: 767px){ .et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item{margin-bottom:5.5%!important;} }.et_pb_gallery_23 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image img { object-fit: initial !important; }\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Image Gallery\n			\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				\n					\n					\n					\n				\n				@media only screen and (min-width: 981px){ .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_title, .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image{max-width:83.5%;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;} .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image img{width:100%;} }@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 980px){ .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_title, .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image{max-width:83.5%;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;} .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image img{width:100%;} }@media only screen and (max-width: 767px){ .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_title, .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image{max-width:83.5%;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;} .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image img{width:100%;} }@media only screen and (min-width: 981px){ .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item{margin-bottom:5.5%!important;} }@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 980px){ .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item{margin-bottom:5.5%!important;} }@media only screen and (max-width: 767px){ .et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item{margin-bottom:5.5%!important;} }.et_pb_gallery_24 .et_pb_gallery_item.et_pb_grid_item .et_pb_gallery_image img { object-fit: initial !important; }\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n					\n	\n	
URL:https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/events/confluence-loren-schwerd/
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibitions
LOCATION:101 W Vermilion St, Lafayette, LA
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