A Lump in the Throat
In conjunction with Prospect.6, Staple Goods presents A Lump in the Throat. In static and moving images, sculptures, and fiber art, the collective鈥檚 eleven members reflect on this year鈥檚 theme; 鈥淭he Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home.鈥� With eyes 鈥榦n鈥� towards the practice of our hands and the crystallizing shape of tomorrow, exhibiting artists have pointedly chosen craft over cessation.
鈥淎 poem is never a put-up job 鈥� it begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A compete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.鈥� 鈥� Robert Frost
A lump in the throat is a seed of advancement in any creative process, requiring an attentive presence and perseverance to flourish in the face of the unknown. We connect this delicate physical sensation to the structural and emotional environment of New Orleans, our home. A place that has long been a model for the future 鈥� in the words of Prospect.6鈥檚 curators, 鈥渁 gift to the rest of the world in its ability to offer lessons and examples for how to live in constant negotiation with the weather, grounded within a community that reflects the global majority, and in direct proximity to the effects and aftereffects of colonial and exploitative economies.鈥�
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In conjunction with Prospect.6, Staple Goods presents A Lump in the Throat. In static and moving images, sculptures, and fiber art, the collective鈥檚 eleven members reflect on this year鈥檚 theme; 鈥淭he Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home.鈥� With eyes 鈥榦n鈥� towards the practice of our hands and the crystallizing shape of tomorrow, exhibiting artists have pointedly chosen craft over cessation.
鈥淎 poem is never a put-up job 鈥� it begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A compete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.鈥� 鈥� Robert Frost
A lump in the throat is a seed of advancement in any creative process, requiring an attentive presence and perseverance to flourish in the face of the unknown. We connect this delicate physical sensation to the structural and emotional environment of New Orleans, our home. A place that has long been a model for the future 鈥� in the words of Prospect.6鈥檚 curators, 鈥渁 gift to the rest of the world in its ability to offer lessons and examples for how to live in constant negotiation with the weather, grounded within a community that reflects the global majority, and in direct proximity to the effects and aftereffects of colonial and exploitative economies.鈥�
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