Lougee "Souvenirs and Castaways", Crane "Geometry Lessons"

Michelle Lougee’s fetish-like Souvenirs series are fashioned of post-consumer blister packages encapsulating natural objects such as feathers, lichen, shells, and pine cones. Her signature crochet stitches frame natural and unnatural content.

Carrie Crane explains, “I’m fascinated by the contained elegance and absolute symmetry of the Platonic solids”. Generated by their distinct mathematical properties, their perfection sets them apart from the imperfect world around them. But, when cracked open, tussled and reconfigured, the magnificent energy they contain—once held static within—is joyously released, creating beautiful unexpected connections in the spaces surrounding them