Panella - Pondering, Always Pondering

And do one more thing for me. There’s a little girl waiting in a garden. She’s going to wait a long while, so she’s going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story. Tell her that if she’s patient, the days are coming which she’ll never forget. Tell her she’ll go to sea and fight pirates, she’ll fall in love with a man who’ll wait two thousand years to keep her safe. Tell her she’ll give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived, and save a whale in outer space. Tell her, this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this is how it ends.

Robert Strati

In this series, The Elevationists, Robert Strati makes works about flight and discovery. As he describes his works, 

“The Elevationists is a an exhibit inspired by the idea of great thinkers who contemplated flight, space and documenting the invisible in attempts to move beyond our everyday reality. The balloon pieces entitled “Hover” are a way of accessing flight, empty space and creating form in usually inaccessible areas—drawing the viewer’s eye upward and into a space generally ignored because there is often nothing there. The diagrams explore the underlying language used in documenting ideas in schematic forms—encouraging the viewer to access that way of seeing and thinking, which is both abstract and analytical.” For more on Strati’s work, click here. 

- Lee Jones