Thames Art Gallery's 'Holly King Project'

This May-June, 2016, the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham-Kent, will host the Holly King Project, an exhibition evolving out of the one-day creation event where artists, photographers, writers and musicians come together to create a single installation. Here are two of those creations:

Where Rhinos Fly

(Artist Leonard Jubenville and Photographer Reagan Smolders)

He chooses trees first

orange for green; white for blue.

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where the earth is sky,

and ground an Elysian azure .

She selects screens,

purposefully disturbing

his inert, careful control.

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where birds walk the earth

and rhinos take flight.

He threads a small string

through the scene, rewinding each

branch, rekindling the absurd.

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where chimpanzees chatter

in schooners of Pi.

She adds avocado filters,

aligns the scene through her

two-dimensions and

his cellular sight,

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where dark is illuminated,

light pushes forth a

cast to worlds yet lived.

[photo: Co-curator Sonya Blazek]

Juanita’s Babies

(Artist Laurie Langford and Photographer Mike Blazek)

Crushed, ice-

opaque cellophane,

sections of triangle light

chipped away,

brushed to reveal

soft pink limbs and

black nails pouring

forth from the Rive

Glacé.

Whether Juanita’s babies,

death camp, Van Winkle sleep

or Cenozoic drift,

they sleep,

they sleep.