“We often dream about people from whom
we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”
-Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An
Acausal Connecting Principle
Have there been times in your life when you’ve known things before you could have known them? Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity” to explain these phenomena. We may never know why these things really happen, though theories abound. Perhaps there is some unknown sensory activity – often called a sixth sense – that gives people
the ability to perceive not just those things in our direct environs, but things and events through the dimension of time. Or perhaps these are, as Jung said, simply “meaningful coincidences”
that happen as the result of our deep connection to our surroundings.
Zuriel Waters joined us to talk about Jello Moon, his exhibition at Kathryn Markel Gallery running until May 17. To accompany the work in this show, Waters penned a beautiful poem beginning with the following lines:
I am a tree. An underwater tree.
They are clouds, of moon jellies perfectly buoyant,
floating in air.
Water is air.
(wall is aquarium)
Water planet… water stars,
Celestial ocean.
To learn more about the works in the show and Waters’ writing, listen to the complete interview.
Alan Bray chatted with us about his upcoming show at Garvey Simon Gallery. Inhabited
Landscape is slated to open April 30 and run until May 30. In his work, Bray, who lives in Maine on his wife’s family’s Christmas tree farm, tends to indicate human involvement – leftovers, as he calls them. Simply put, he emphasizes ways that the landscape is molded to someone’s needs. To learn more, listen to the complete interview.
