Wandering the stacks of a warm familiar library filled with discoveries yet to be made and things all too familiar we just can't place. Obscura: Anthology of Things Lost and Found is the opening of a curio cabinet containing wondrous and mysterious things from a past beyond time that feels small, precious, and quietly somehow meant for you and only you to find. 

 

This body of work, sourced from the culmination of a senior year, on the printed page and the vessel ask the viewer to encounter things both precious and clandestine, fleeting and archived, past and universally present.  

 

Walking into the gallery we encounter two sides of the same coin. The face contains the weathered and distressed historical in variable series with their value and intricacies more clearly admired in their multitude. After walking through the past, one would reach the intimate tail littered with the bright and colorful discarded things from the everyday. Both sides are objects you might find only once, but through print and craft can be experienced in multitudes.  

 

We cling to objects to ground our memory in time and place ever since we reached for the first cup to hold drink, a blanket for warmth, and a bowl to hold fruits to eat  Through the layering of a living archive, this exhibition invites you to create an intimate space to walk a labyrinth of interwoven stories, histories, and secrets to experience a fleeting moment of finding and belonging.