Louise Kames: I Don’t See Anything That’s Not Beautiful
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Artist Louise Kames focuses on creating works that explore the beauty of natural decay, the line between life and death, and what remains after. Her exhibition at the Figge will include large woodcut prints and charcoal and pastel drawings of a dying willow tree from her yard in Dubuque. This tree’s withering state is a direct result of the continuous droughts caused by climate change. These works complement her earlier installation work, I Don’t See Anything That’s Not Beautiful. In this series Kames traces the experiences of a woman grappling with dementia by documenting the subtle rituals she used to calm her mind and find comfort. Both series explore mortality and the inevitability of decline and decay, whether brought on by manmade changes to the environment, or by an incurable disease.
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