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Stick Season


  • Boston Sculptors Gallery 486 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA, 02118 United States (map)

April 5 – May 7, 2023      

Artist’s Reception: Saturday, April 29, 4 - 6pm

First Friday Receptions: April 7 & May 5, 5 - 8:30pm

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday,11am-5pm & by appointment

The woodland are merely witnesses to our brief lives. They cycle with endless consistency through the seasons, and we see what we want to see in them.  There is no season more adept at amplifying our inner thoughts than Vermont stick season, the time between the cacophony of fall colors and the brilliant white and blues of winter.   The thick gray sky bears down on the naked landscape leaving only the tree trunks, like black smudges on a muted canvas.  

Stick season can be the peaceful absence of noise or deafening silence. Infinite grays and textures can turn into a colorless void. Grateful solitude can yield to isolation.  And depression, like a flightless bird, envelopes hope.

It is wait-time for me, until the snow falls and bathes every surface in light.