{"id":77071,"date":"2019-11-06T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=77071"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T18:33:28","slug":"she-speaks-when-sad-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/she-speaks-when-sad-art\/","title":{"rendered":"She Speaks: When sad, art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you noticed a distinct lack of, well, me, during the federal elections, I promise it wasn\u2019t a deliberate attempt to avoid voicing an opinion during a very opinionated time. Those are, indeed, my favourite times in which to opine. Unfortunately, my absence was due to a very unwanted diagnosis of ovarian cancer\u2014and, yes, I\u2019ve tried coconut oil.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>A few days after the first of possibly many surgeries, I went to the Algonquin Theatre to view Kate Brown\u2019s collection, <em>Table of Contents<\/em>. My diagnosis, among other life and world changes, has shifted my perspective and there is nothing more grounding, more universal, and more diverting than art. One of my favourite sayings comes from Cesar A. Cruz, a Mexican poet and human rights activist: &#8220;Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.&#8221; As someone who has been labelled disturbed and is often just simply uncomfortable, I seek spaces where I can step outside the confines of my own psychological preconceptions and make space for new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I deeply, urgently recommend this. I was moved by Brown\u2019s show and I offer the following reflection, from the child of an artist and one who, when offered a ruler with which to draw something, scribbled poetry on it instead.<\/p>\n<p>One could be forgiven for presuming that <em>Table of Contents<\/em> is an attempt to depict femaleness through the symbolism of the vessel, the empty chalice, the hollow.<\/p>\n<p>Well, one hopes to be forgiven\u2014as this was my interpretation initially upon taking in Brown\u2019s rich, varied, and deeply evocative collection. Maybe it\u2019s the feminist in me, or the lesbian\u2014but I do tend to instinctually interpret such art as inherently female-centred. Brown\u2019s explanation is that this body of work is &#8216;gender-neutral&#8217;, with the bowls representing perhaps the stomach, or indeed the breast: elements of sustenance, of offering.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Brown\u2019s first solo show opened in 1984, with dark, challenging pieces. When discussing her process, Brown calls herself a visualizer, and laughs when she says she\u2019s &#8220;mostly, always surprised by the completed pieces.&#8221; She says, almost to herself: &#8220;We know things we don\u2019t know we know.&#8221; And inspiration? There was a time when if you\u2019d checked beneath Brown\u2019s pillow, you\u2019d find a copy of Emily Carr\u2019s biography, &#8220;for strength.&#8221; Couldn\u2019t we each use such a talisman?<\/p>\n<p>The signature piece of <em>Table of Contents<\/em> is entitled \u201cEvolution of a Painting\u201d\u2014the &#8216;finished&#8217; painting takes pride of place beside a placard of the process it took to get there. Of the journey, Brown says, &#8220;I just kept going because I knew I needed to.&#8221; She could have chosen to complete this work at several different stages, yet the end result feels ideal, like the flourish of a quill pen inscribing The End. The collection shares the rich navy blues, creams, and oranges of &#8220;Evolution of a Painting&#8221;, with unexpected sweeps of pink, purple, or red throughout. Though cohesively curated, each canvas tells its own story.<\/p>\n<p>As Brown escorts me from piece to piece, I begin to see the telltale signs of the eyedrop layering process throughout many finished products, inspired by a tear-catcher that she created herself. There\u2019s a grid, half painstaking and half haphazard, below the surface images, sometimes existing only as texture and sometimes exposed to complement the imagery itself. When she speaks to why she chose to showcase bowls in this body of work, it\u2019s simple: &#8220;I knew I needed an object in my abstracts.&#8221; Yet upon viewing, the observer is invited into a much more complicated internal process.<\/p>\n<p>When viewing &#8220;The Apple Bowl&#8221;, Brown describes her manipulation of gravity, working in 360 degrees to achieve the desired effect. Despite the descriptive title of the painting and the fact we can observe it as a bowl, there\u2019s still a rejection of space itself\u2014&#8221;no up or down, no north, east, south, or west.&#8221; Brown circles back to her ethos: dispelling the notion of negative space in art. What if, she muses, we treated the environment as she treats her artwork\u2014would we have polluted the very air we breathe if we\u2019d truly understood that it is not empty, not nothing? Could we have dismissed it, destroyed it, knowing that air, oxygen, is tangible, like every corner of a canvas?<\/p>\n<p>Then it strikes me\u2014no bowl is ever empty. The realization changes the way I see the other pieces. Brown isn\u2019t portraying hollow objects; they exist entirely on their own terms. Further, some only &#8220;seem like a bowl&#8221;, with Brown walking the viewer through an optical illusion where the inside of the bowl appears to transform to the outside, inviting the question, can a container refuse to contain? Be incapable of containing?<\/p>\n<p>Kate Brown allows private viewings of her artwork at her home, which she considers her sacred space. After getting so much of Brown\u2019s attention and insight during my viewing of <em>Table of Contents<\/em>, I would recommend this option to anyone who is drawn to or curious about her work. Her willingness to explore her own work through the eyes of the audience, combined with the playful reflection of her spirit in her collection, makes that sharing a rare gift.<\/p>\n<p>While this show has ended, there are so many more upcoming. A particular series that is close to my heart because it uniquely combines nature and poetry is by Paula Boon, now showing at the Huntsville Public Library for the next two months. As I attempt to return to comfort, both in my own body and in the spaces I occupy, I find myself seeking art, for its simplicity, its complexity, and the innate way that, when I connect with it or the artist, I feel understood. Even when I don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to all of our stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox three times per week!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61827\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61827\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61827\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/02\/20180521_122413-e1549502286516.jpeg\" alt=\"Kathleen May (Photo: Kai Rannik)\" width=\"176\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/02\/20180521_122413-e1549502286516-165x300.jpeg 165w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/02\/20180521_122413-e1549502286516.jpeg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-61827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathleen May (Photo: Kai Rannik)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kathleen May is a writer, speaker, and activist. Her work in our community includes co-founding the long-running Huntsville Women\u2019s Group, being a Survivor Mentor in the pilot survivor-to-survivor program through MPSSAS, co-facilitating instinct-unlocking workshops for women through I Got This, working as a host and community producer of <i>Herstories<\/i> on YourTV, volunteering with Women\u2019s March Muskoka, and her role as a front-line counsellor at a women\u2019s shelter. Kathleen is a 2018 Woman of Distinction for Social Activism and Community Development and also received the Best Author award for her 2018 submission at the Muskoka Novel Marathon, a fundraiser for literacy services. 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