Law notes that the installation is designed to reflect such cycles: вЂњAfter exploring the intimacy of the womb and the sensation of being consumed and cocooned in nature I would like to explore the momentum of life. WhatвЂ™s more, the opportunity for concentrated viewership begets an understanding of the artistвЂ™s intent on reflecting cycles in the natural world: the corridor beginning in softness, filling up in the center, and gracefully thinning out at its end. Sans-phones, viewers reflect on the intensive process of carefully linking sensitive biological matter with delicate copper wire, the delightfully referenced exercise in physicalizing plein air painting and impressionism, brush strokes built by reeds and grasses, texture developed through coxcomb and marigold, weight distribution between babyвЂ™s breath lightness and dried seed density all folded into a saturated orchestral tapestry. This purposeful instruction by Law, that viewers may not take photos or videos of the installation, allows a qualitatively distinct form of attention to emerge. Installation view, Rebecca Louise Law, The Journey, photography by Doug Eng.

In requiring viewers to not photograph the work, admittedly an impressive Instagram-able backdrop, the emotional tenor of the installation creates reverie: viewers talk quietly with one another, watch each other examine the plant life, point curiously at flowers, leaves, and seed types- creating simultaneous private and communal exchanges about science, mortality, site-specificity, memory, family, joy and grief.

While its scale seems monumentalвЂ“ botanical lines drop from ceiling to floor and span the length of the exhibition roomвЂ“ its genteel materiality, and the precise directive that viewers are not allowed to photograph the work, generate a contemplative and inquisitive experience, increasingly rare within cultural spaces. This elegant, spatial composition breathes as viewers move within the space and peer through gaps between petals, seed pods, branches, and grasses.

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