Art Making Workshop and Discussion: Saturday; May 7, 2022 (1p-3p)

Destroy to Build. Passage. is an exhibition that draws upon the familiar yet unique experience of purging and clearing objects, clutter, and possessions to cleanse and renew one’s personal space. The conceptual approach of Destroy to Build speaks to rummage and estate sales, where stale, unused or overused, forgotten or futile things that have accumulated over time are released. The purged things often weigh heavy with regret, pain, and sorrow as markers of time passed, missed opportunities, and lives or loves destroyed or lost.

Society has amassed a weight of concepts, ideas, images, and objects that fill our collective understanding with decayed, toxic energy, reflecting shared trauma and collective loss. Passage references opportunity for movement – physical, social, and psychological. Purging violent, triggering content from a space opens it  for a cleansing, a renewal. The space still exists, but now it has endless possibility to become a social environment that is inclusive, equitable, and healthy.

Made possible with the support of the Broward County Cultural Division.