Secrets of the Slow Dimension

works by Agnes Field, Jessica Schleif, Kayla Fermin, and Sara Moen

April 9 - May 8, 2022

Four regional artists join together to create a site-specific, collaborative installation with the concept of reframimg our view of nature. 

Plants live in the slow dimension, always growing and changing...but slower than our patience to watch or to see. We go about our daily lives often forgetting or not considering the important and essential role of plants, not only for our mere survival, but also as companions that must adapt and change as our world changes before our eyes. 

Secrets of the Slow Dimension, curated by Jessica Schleif, shares four artists’ resonant connection to the natural world. Agnes Field creates music by capturing and relaying plants’ electrical signals; Jessica Schleif incorporates clay from landslides and combines them into small world gardens of moss and huckleberry on slabs of locus wood; Kayla Fermin makes maps of local waterways and prints on paper and wood; and Sara Moen presents portraits of local ecosystems drawn with charcoal on wood. Together these four artists present a portal to expand our view of reality, to incorporate more than just our human and animal interactions in our daily consciousness.

Opening reception during Astoria’s Second Saturday Artwalk, April 9th from 12 - 8 pm.