Excerpt from agb.life/visit/exhibitions/holding_up_the_sky:

Caroline Monnet: Holding Up The Sky

Lee-Chin Family Gallery

In this survey of new and recent works, multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet centers geometries, especially the cube, to draw attention to how different spatial relationships condition the way that we live and think. Monnet’s practice moves between textiles, photography, sculpture, and film to address the complexity of Indigenous identities and bilateral legacies, drawing from her Anishinaabe and French heritages. In her work, traditional Anishinaabe sacred geometry transforms and softens the industrial into something more personal, constructing a new point of view—centering the cube. As a form, the cube is present in architecture and many traditions of building, shaping the way we understand the world and dictating the ways in which we live, play, and learn. And, like the repetitious creations unfolded in birch biting, Holding Up The Sky follows a symmetrical continuum.

The exhibition features her new work The Room (2023), a ten-foot square construction of industrial-grade styrofoam, a material used in residential buildings to create water and air-resistive barriers and insulate against inclement climate conditions. The Room is open on one side, exposing the box and welcoming the audience into its constructed space. The foam is incised with a repetitive pattern; the motifs, inspired by traditional Anishinaabe iconography, break the strictness of the industrial square form by introducing the personal and the poetic into architectural rigidity.

In conversation with The Room is Pikogan (Shelter) (2021), a sculptural work with voluminous curvatures constructed of reticulated polyethylene pipes, PVC conduits, copper, velcro, and steel. The materials are bent to shape, working against the prescription of colonial architecture, and resisting the urge to square and compartmentalize. The fluidity of the circle intentionally builds from knowledge rooted in the past. This can also be seen in the direction of Monnet’s recent photographic works that depict a formal arranging and rearranging of foam “beads” into cubed borders. Manipulating the material for the camera leads to endless possible formations and configurations.

A series of technical drawings from Monnet’s early career (2014) of multiple cube structures are seen alongside a new series of diagrams, completed in a Swedish residency, mapping the ceiling of her studio. Positioning these works in conversation illustrates the circular process of Monnet’s practice—from drafting architectural forms, to utilizing structural design to underscore the severity of the housing crisis, to manipulating industrial material into textile creations and wearable fabrics, and returning to schematic renderings and geometric linework. These are simultaneously performances for the camera and blueprints for future work.

Born to an Anishinaabe mother and a French father, Caroline Monnet is from Outaouais, Québec, and now based in Montréal. After studying at the University of Ottawa and the University of Granada, in Spain, she pursued a career in visual arts and film. Her work is regularly presented internationally and can be found in prestigious museum, private, and corporate collections. Monnet has become known for minimalist yet emotionally charged work that uses industrial materials and combines the vocabulary of popular and traditional visual cultures with the tropes of modernist abstraction to create unique hybrid forms. She is represented by Blouin Division Gallery.

At the AGB, we lean into our unique position of being a public art gallery at the crossroads of craft and contemporary art production and presentation. Monnet’s work examines the traditional craft of Anishinaabe embroidery and textiles in alternative methods and materials, exemplifying the potent fluidity of craft and contemporary art. Holding Up The Sky continues the dialogue on how new material engagement takes up space within craft and how traditional and ancestral knowledge of art production is being represented in the expanded field of contemporary art institutes.

Got a new camera and a wide angle lens too so went off to the woods to play. It was a bit dull mostly but gave me the chance to get used to the lens.

I'm amazed by the detail (press 'L' and see why) and can't wait for a better opportunity to test it out more thoroughly.

Also I discovered the D610 RAW files aren't compatible with Lightroom 4 so had to download something to convert them to DNG files. (That makes me sound like I know all about it but spent a lot of time googling to get the answers).

I have learned that the art of simplicity simply means making peace with your complexity.

— India.Arie, Wings of Forgiveness

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complexities passing in waves

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B & W version

Pre-manipulated texture: Thanks skeletalmess

Juniper Events proudly bring you Gothmas Market – a dark take on traditional Christmas. From December 6-16, 2024, you can find the best of all things festive with a dark, macabre, and ghoulish twist.

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Welcome to Gothmas 2024

December 6th – December 16th

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The Juniper Events group will have a 12 hour early access to the event (5th December – 11pm to 6th December – 11am)

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As with most events there will be a lot of people in one location, please lower your complexity so that everyone has an enjoyable experience.

Every store will showcase new and exclusive designs...

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Some items showcased in this picture are from the Gothmas Market event as follows:

KiB Designs - Goth Noelle Hat

KiB Designs - Goth Noelle Skirt

KiB Designs - Goth Noelle Bodysuit

LouChara Bellamira Fireplace

sass [2024 Christmas Tree] Noir

Dirty Rat - Duskguard

Lush Poses - Santas Girl Chair - hud9

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Other information, items/accessories in picture (not at event):

HAIR

DOUX - Sins

NAILS

[QE] Tapered Square Nails

JEWELRY

(Yummy) Oceana Ring Collection

- Secrets - Love Is The Key Necklace - Silver

PETS

JIAN Santa's Reindeer Adult Wanderer

JIAN Lively Labs :: Family Bed

PROPS

hive // celebration balloons

NACH Christmas Gifts Bold

JIAN Holiday Treats Side Table

Second Spaces - Holiday Prep - bag of supplies

Bee Designs Christmas Wishes gacha 5

{what next} December Potted Poinsettia

1.[TKC]Christmas Roulette ~ Rare Christmas Roulette Game

dust bunny . farmers market . carrots

.:Short Leash:. Kinky Christmas Stocking // Coal Version

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A Celtic iron -on transfer pattern for embroidery. I've never used it for embroidery. Too complex for me to embroider but I like the pattern.

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Here is something to change from the red poppy flowers! ;-)

Edit :

I found what flower it was : A passiflora.

Canon EOS 5DmkII with EF 100mm f/2.8 macro @ 1/15th sec; f/8: iso50.

I really like the geometry and complexity of this shot.... :-)

San Francisco, California

Beginning a new little series showing the intricated details of this variety of Iris (different from the Iris of my previous up-load),

grown and blossomed for the very first time in my garden.

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Rain drenched Cobweb on callicarpa bodinieri in the garden.

I do love the fibrous complexity of the way the branches spread out in this scene. The light enough to highlight the tendrils as they seek a path outwards.

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Complexities in the sky, much too hard to contemplate before morning coffee and donuts.

27 images stacked

Nothing amazing when it comes to the composition. Just held in the hand, some nice light and the spectacular colour and complexity of an autumn leaf.

From: prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2020/12/complexity/

Explore (briefly) 24 June, 2013. Best position #349.

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Location: View from the Walmedinger Horn to the peak of Widderstein, Vorarlberg, Austria

Thanks for viewing / Danke fürs Anschauen

Great Blue Heron ~ (Ardea herodias)

Two Great Blue Herons engage in a courtship display. Their feathers puffed out and heads bobbing up and down make for a striking and animated scene. Watching these large birds interact with one another in a mix of energy and tenderness is a wondrous thing.

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Smooth curves and sharp polygons

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Standing outside this century old barn, I looked up to see an aircraft flying overhead and thought of how far we'd come. The barn featured a unique swing beam construction that allowed a team of horses, hitched to a wagon, to turn around without having to back up. Horses apparently don't like to walk backwards so this made life easier for farmer and animal alike. When you compare that marvel of practical engineering to the complexity of the plane, it seems there are no limits to what we can accomplish.

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Garden of the Gods

“You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.”

Paul Singer

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Chaotic Simplicity or Orderly Complexity :-/ . Allegory . रूपक . ଦୃଷ୍ଟାନ୍ତ . Alegoría . 寓言 .

… Story continued from post # 7. The kids bid a tearful farewell to the Lonely Lion :'-( The Caring Camel brought them back to the outskirts of the jungle. They all hugged the Caring Camel for one last time, said good-bye, and headed back home…

… I have been noticing that the kids appear to be sort of confused since their return from the jungle. Initially I thought they might be missing the exciting company of the Lonely Lion and the Caring Camel, but of late I have come to realize that the kids have been grappling with something far more fundamental – they just can’t make up their mind about what they love more, the chaotic simplicity of jungle life or the orderly complexity of city life :-/ Well, I guess they will eventually figure it out someday. The End.

Looking for the Lonely Lion series

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