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The bee represents Katie Chasteen.  She is one of the fantastic Delurk artists whose recent effervescent body of photography includes images of bees.  The elephant represents former Delurk artist Robert Page.  His recent paintings involve playful imagery of elephants.

Delurk Gallery offers a "Delurk on Delurk" exhibition for the month of September.  Each member artist is tasked with channeling other fellow Delurkers' creative processes and produce a response piece for each.  Two Winston-Salem galleries will host the resulting collection of art in tandem: Delurk Gallery and Ember Gallery.

It's a cool concept.  For those unfamiliar with Delurk we are always up to something.  And there is a tradition of collaboration and influencing of each others' techniques -- as any appropriate group of productive artists should be doing. 

My two response pieces explore the relationship between a bee and an elephant.  They work as a diptych.  They are however, framed separately in their own world.  Each will debut in separate galleries as the project dictates.  In addition to the enjoyable task of "channeling other artists" one of the themes explored in these two works is "fleeting verses enduring memory".

Delurk's recent August exhibition included Don Beroth's final works of art demonstrating the changes brought forth as his battle with Alzheimer's takes hold.  His son, Chad mounted the exhibition.  It is a powerful way to comprehend the transformation of the mind.  Powerful and inspiring. 

Every day we gain and we lose.  Some things stick around like heavy thoughts in honey.  Other times our memories lightly float away like flakes of skin.  My pieces compartmentalize each notion -- together, but separate.  Katie's bee is "A Fleeting Moment".  Robert's elephant "Wrinkles In Time".  Heavy verses light.  Mind-full verses weightless forgetting.  The yin and yang of going forward.

The opening reception for both exhibitions is Friday, September 4.  Check each website for specific times and such.