Eyes Should Be Washed

IC: Rachel Breen, 'Vision/Review'

 

Eyes should be washed, to see things in a different way.
Words should be washed
To become the wind itself, the rain itself.
- excerpt from 'Water’s Footsteps' by Sohrab Sepehri

 

Artists took questions posed by the poem and answered them with their art and writing. These became the book “Eyes Should Be Washed." This exhibit expands the book into Pirsig Projects and Biennale Beinalley.

 

Like the book, it draws on elements from the poem such as: “What if you didn’t ask, “Where are you from?” But just knew, we are all from here?” In this way, viewers are encouraged to find commonalities among the infinites of vision, through renewed senses.  

 

Artists
Katayoun Amjadi, Rachel Breen, Sayge Caroll, Mara Duvra, Nooshin Hakim, Edie Overturf, Christina Schmid, Aki Shibata, and Maria Cristina Tavera ​

 

Closing
Readings and a performance by Rachel Breen, Mara Duvra, and Christina Schmid. As a closer to their exhibition Eyes Should Be Washed artists Rachel Breen, Mara Duvra, and Christina Schmid will read and perform. The public is invited to do so as well in keeping with the show’s inspirational poem: The Footsteps of Water.