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The Brain In The Woods Presents:
Into The Woods of Your Brain {Spies, Lies, and Nice Tries} Asha Canalos Opening reception: Friday October 2, 6-9pm Artist Talk: Friday October 15, 6-7pm Closing reception: Sunday October 25, 4-6pm at Fourteenfifteen Gallery Into The Woods of Your Brain {Spies, Lies, and Nice Tries} is a selection from Asha Canalos’s in-progress graphic novel, The Brain In The Woods, which features dual narratives, following two distinct characters in different decades. One is the autobiographical account of Canalos’s life as an artist and farmer who was pushed to become an anti-fracking activist in upstate New York in 2011, taking on a community representative role in a federal pipeline case. It details, among other things, her 2012 arrest for NVDA protest, the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing in which Brett Kavanaugh was a judge, the subjection of her community to oil & gas related illness, harm, threats, and unwarranted governmental surveillance, and overlapping life challenges, before Canalos relocated to New Mexico in late 2015. |
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A second narrative concerns the fictional story of an artist and garden designer, Silvio, who leaves Brooklyn, New York, to renovate the grounds of a wealthy couple’s historic estate in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the late 1990s, at a time when the first energy industry fracking prospecting was occurring in the region. During the throes of becoming ill with Lyme Disease, he discovers that others are covertly living on the massive wooded property, and faces a moral conundrum about this information and its disclosure to anyone. Drawing on research in fields including neurobiology, plant biology, ecology, and environmental policy, 'The Brain In The Woods' focuses on the interdependent welfare of landscapes, communities, minds and bodies as felt and lived realities. The two narratives- through text and through their corresponding sets of painted, hand-drawn collages- ask us to look at the connections between harmed land and harmed people, and conversely, to acknowledge the potential resilience of the body, and the living landscape all around us, in the face of trauma, oppressive forces and harm.
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