Branchings

Kate Saunders &

Ger Killeen

November 15- December 29

 In this exhibition two complementary artforms, Kiln-formed Glass and Digital Augmented Reality, combine to explore the latest scientific insights into natural forest communities which link above-ground and below-ground in vastly complex and surprising ways.

 Using images of plants, trees, and fungi native to the Oregon Coast forests, we try to reveal and communicate what Suzanne Simard calls “the beautiful structures and finely adapted languages of the forest network.”

 Saunders has long worked with natural images in glass, some of which she magnifies beyond easy recognition to produce a radically altered perspective on common forms. Killeen takes these images as well as his own digital prints as occasions for using Augmented Reality techniques to draw the viewer underneath the surface of the physical artworks, and down inside an imagined experience of the understory—literally the story or stories which pulse beneath.

Pique your interest by visiting the digital gallery here: https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/13531815/branchings

Then come visit to see the work in person.