Chromatic Vigils / Low Tides
Friday, August 27 to Sunday, August 29, 12-5 pm
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND
Hudson Hall, at the Historic Hudson Opera House
327 Warren Street, Hudson NY

Jesse Bransford + Lorenzo De Los Angeles,
Jaqueline Cedar
Juliet Jacobson
Ashley Garrett
Alessandro Keegan
Matt Jones
Jac Lahav
Alex McQuilkin
Paola Oxoa
Max Razdow
Dana Sherwood

“At such a time of great tides I go down to that threshold of the sea world. … There I have known dark caves where tiny sea flowers bloom and masses of soft coral endure the transient withdrawal of the water.” -Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea

My colored pencil was blue and I thought of the low tide with its periwinkles, washashore knowledge, shells and revolving pebbles, dreaming weeds and wind-driven animals. My colored pencil became orange and the sun shone across my paper, a small field of vision. I managed to think of everywhere I went on maps where trees doubled themselves along the water’s surface. My colored pencil turned dark green, like seaweed entangled in a current close to the shore, and I felt as though I was floating, unrooted. My colored pencil switched to red and I confronted the sky, hunting for anything that could be found, until the act of searching became a muscle in my own fingers. Countless stories of seeing you in my memory were enough to persuade tangible, quick pictures to freely rise and sink, camouflaged by cycles of meaning, until I caught sight of an intertidal rock to wait in hiding.