Exhibition Statement
“In the quiet moments, there’s a peculiar weight that settles over us—a haunting awareness of time’s quiet persistence. Floravita invites us to reflect on the delicate balance between living and letting go, where the fading of one life is not an ending, but part of a continuous, intertwined rhythm—an eternal dance of flesh, bone, and blossom.
This collection explores the fragile space where time feels both infinite and fleeting, like staring at an hourglass while pretending it’s not running. It’s a dance between remembering and forgetting—a tug-of-war between love and loss, between clinging to the familiar and confronting the unknown.
The artwork by Alia El-Bermani, Skillet Gilmore, Oami Powers and Sally Van Gorder in this exhibition serves as a memento mori, a reminder not just of our own mortality but of the fading chapters of those who came before us. The worn hands that once held ours so firmly are now softening, slowing, becoming fragile echoes of their former strength. And in them, we glimpse our own future selves—aging, weathered, and, eventually, gone.
This exhibition is not an elegy, but a celebration—a delicate reminder to savor the fleeting beauty of now. To honor the transient, and to embrace the truth: that life, with all its tender moments and inevitable losses, is breathtakingly, beautifully finite.”
- Pete Sack, Curator
The sculptures are little offerings, memorials to the cycles of nature and the passage of time. Each a collection of precious bits of flimsiness - withering flowers, deer bones, leaves curling with age, a wreath of blackberry cane and tulip - placed on the altar of the earth. Each a ritual to tether us more tightly to the revolutions of the sun and our own soft animal natures.