In The Windows at Nohra Haime: BETH LIPMAN: The Ravelled Edge

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The window is a liminal interior setting yet accessed through the public realm of the street. In a city where windows are almost always commercially utilized, this question of desire or consumption is being negotiated using an artificial construction for wilderness. The exhibition occurs within an architectural space paradoxically proposing the premise of wilderness as seen in the time-lapsed element of living flowers deteriorating.  As these flowers wilt over time, their decay contrasts heavily with the immortal glass flora that remains the same. Cultural objects become the surrogate of the Anthropocene. The viewer becomes one with the work as an element of the natural amongst the artificial wilderness.

This installation contemplates the juxtaposition of exterior and interior, domesticity, and wilderness, alluding to the ferocity of this moment of transition.

Lipman captures the movement of pedestrians to create a narrative. Glass, clay, wood, metal, and fresh cut flowers invite the viewers into this delicate ecosystem. While there is growth, there is also a dark exploration of decay.

Lipman has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant.