PRESERVATION OF
FORGETTING AT
NEON HEATER GALLERY
PRESERVATION OF
FORGETTING AT
NEON HEATER GALLERY
The Town Between My Toes
2019
sand, wax, raw rigatoni and shell pasta, pleather, black food coloring, olives, carrots, olive pits, cotton string, resin, wire, wood, paint, rocks, teddy bears
size varies (6' tall)
Pea-n-Carrot Tree
2019
preserved peas, carrots, and peppers, gravestone dust, beads, rocks, sand, resin, paint, plastic, streamers, pleather, wood, string, mosaic tile
12x12x44"
OF ASH AND ICE (WHITE FOREST)
This exhibition is the first landscape within the Make-Believe Forest
Wick Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
Curated by Christine Rebhuhn and Sam Branden
Photography by Matt Sherman
Catalog by Logan Myers
Exhibition poem by Joe Brommel
Short Story by Arya Samuelson
Of Ash and Ice (White Forest) marks the origin of the Make-Believe Forest, where the first altar was built and the logic of return, preservation, and transformation was established. From this initial landscape, the forest has continued to grow through successive iterations, including Yellow Forest, Purple Forest, and Black Forest.
Make-believe Forest is an ongoing body of work that asks where childhood selves retreat during adulthood and whether it is possible to bring them back. In children’s stories, the forest is often a site of transformation or trial; here, it becomes an invented landscape built of many parts, poised for play, performance, or ritual.