Oracle’s Light– At the West End Gallery
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
–John Galsworthy, Over the River (1933)
Well, today marks the end of this year’s show, Eye in the Sky, at the West End Gallery. The exhibit comes off the gallery walls after today.
The remaining paintings are taken down and stacked and stored and some are rehung in other parts of the gallery. It is a disassembling of the whole and is, as Galsworthy wrote, an untidy undertaking, the finish to this particular journey.
But it has been a good voyage, one with lessons learned and one that sets up new endpoints for the next. A heartfelt Thank You to all that came to see the show and to those who made it to the Gallery Talk. Your support and encouragement have meant the world to me. Inspiring.
And that sentiment extends and multiplies to Jesse, Linda, and John at the West End Gallery.
They make the untidy undertaking look neat and easy. And that, as you know, is not a small thing.
If you can make it into the West End today, please do before the work in this exhibit begins the next stage in its journey.
It was difficult choosing but I thought this might be a good song to end this exhibit. It’s the great old Woody Guthrie song, Dusty Old Dust, also known as So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh. Of course, there’s a world of difference between chased from your home and on the road by the dust storms of the 1930’s and an art exhibit ending. But that final line- I’ve got to be driftin’ along– fits like a glove.
Thanks!
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