22 March 2025 - 22 March 2026
Renato Orara: Entangled Pairs
“Ten Thousand Things That Breathe” is intimate and expansive. It is taboo, ambiguous, and complex. Yet, it is simple and that is what holds my work's center. Three decades running, these vessels of ink and energy continue to spawn new iterations that seek to stop the mind for that moment's empty pause. Most recent among them is a meditation on each work's relation to ten thousand things: “Entangled Pairs.”

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