SONORAN HOURGLASS: Dawn’s Early Light | Curator’s Talk

SONORAN HOURGLASS | Dawn’s Early Light

Curator’s Talks | Tuesday, November 18 & Thursday, November 20 | 10:00 am | Main Gallery | Free with Admission

Join us in the Exhibit House with Director of Arts, James Schaub for a discussion about SONORAN HOURGLASS: Dawn’s Early Light. Concentrating on the timeframe of dawn and all its workings, Dawn’s Early Light is the first installment in the series, SONORAN HOURGLASS.

A day is composed of 24 hours; split in half, the cycle is equal parts day and night, twelve-hour intervals – heralded by the transitional phases of dawn and dusk. The exhibition series SONORAN HOURGLASS will survey how time moves over the Sonoran Desert in the most obvious and subtle of ways – through the air: the light, the temperature, the mood, the pressure – through the landscape: the creatures, the water, the plants, the earth – through the cosmos. Using abstract notions and temporal quotients of past, present, and future, the classic form and function of an hourglass hearkens time’s effect in slow dissolution or methodical accretion, lending a timeless tone and romance to this project.

Image: details (clockwise from top left): Rick DeMont, Patti Gardiner, William Lesch, Beata Wehr