I’m pleased to have written the accompanying notes for the upcoming exhibition Ecotones: States of Proximity, by the glass artist María Renée Morales Lam.
María Renée Morales Lam’s work has long concerned itself with unseen forces and past dynamics that make themselves visible and palpable in moments of encounter and contact. The concept of the ecotone, which lends its name to this exhibition, describes regions of transition between ecological communities – including tidal areas, estuaries, and the riparian zones which mark the edges of rivers, streams, and lakes against the land. In each of these places, materials – and life itself – may flow and exchange in valuable ways.
Here, we are invited to the meeting point of the everyday world and an artspace in which Morales Lam’s principal medium, glass, toys with our perceptions of materiality and our understanding of the properties of light.
matt finch / mechanical dolphin 