In-person event. Monique Martin's solo exhibition titled "Context is Everything" merges the unwanted and undervalued flora of the landscape with the characteristic of judging people, events, and circumstances too quickly without using prior knowledge and insights. The installation consists of 2000 paper dandelions installed in perpetual bloom across the floor of the gallery. The dandelion is a silent protest heard worldwide on sidewalks, in parks and gardens, and is a model for how to be strong in the face of adversity. It abhors monoculture, is open to differences and challenges stereotypes. It can be a symbol for healing from emotional pain, physical injury, and thriving through life’s difficulties. The dandelion flourishes in difficult conditions, surviving the challenges imposed by humanity and emerging victorious.
The exhibition also explores the concept of transformation through 15,000 silkscreened paper butterflies. Transformation is the deep time of things when life hangs like a question mark, fragile and always changing. Sometimes a single moment in a single day can determine a life but it can also take years and decades to form a life. Transformation is a process within human existence. This process allows us to live in the continuous present as we know we will not be the same person tomorrow that we were today. The arithmetic of life can be looked at as continuous subtraction or as continuous transformation. When we die, there is a universe inside our head that evolved and changed as we experienced life. When parts of our life run thin like the transparent chrysalis of a butterfly there is room for transformation, change, growth and movement.
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