"Taking Flight-A Collection of Curiosities"

January 13 - January 31

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Taking Flight Invite

Taking Flight Invite

“TAKING FLIGHT  A Collection of Curiosities”

Assemblage works and paintings by Betty Spackman

With contributions from Victoria Bowes, Elizabeth Carefoot, and Deb DeJong,

He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy

He who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity’s sunrise

- William Blake, 1757 – 1827

“This eclectic ‘curiosity shop’ of objects and paintings comes from considering our propensity to collect and try to hold on to what we desire to know or to have. We tend to want to keep and to cage the objects of our desires but in doing so we face the danger of destroying the very things we admire. Ultimately, owning and naming something has very little to do with understanding it. I am interested in this paradox. I am interested in the act of capturing and confining life…but mostly, I am interested in freedom.”

Please come and spend some time in the Fort Gallery examining these objects, images and texts. And do note that Kelita Haverland, will be featured at the opening reception January 15 at 7pm, singing “Caged Bird" from her Juno Award nominated "Naked Soul" CD.

Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 5pm

Visit the website for more information: www.fortgallery.ca

The Fort Gallery, 9048 Glover Road, Fort Langley, 604-888-7411

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