Sacred Symbols
​Simon Lanzoni

Opening Reception: May 2nd, 6pm-9pm
Closing Reception: June 6th, 6pm-9pm
​Exhibition Dates: May 2 - June 8
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Language coalesces and encodes human experience: it is the very means through which we engage, feel, and express perceived realities. Alphabets— language transmogrified into sets of sacred, yet distinct visual symbols— form the keys to the dissemination of knowledge, ideas, and narratives. Written text captures otherwise fleeting experiences of oral traditions to make them permanent. Similar to the act of writing, in artistic practice, resin applied to textile, an inherently pliable medium that can suspend, flow, and billow, translates shape-shifting moments and affixes them into states of permanence.  Sacred Symbols takes inspiration from alphabetic letterforms, stretching them into the third dimension as a play on perspectival compositions that parallels the experience of shaping language. ​