Opening Reception & Artists' Talk

A Hallwalls Artists-in-Residence Project (HARP)

Opening reception, Friday, September 7, 2012, 8-11 pm
Artist's talk, Friday, September 7, 8 pm in the Cinema.

Exhibition continues through October 31.

From a short story of the same title, the artists have written: "People have children because they distract us from the knowledge that our life's work amounts at best to something minor, a marginal note in one of billions and billions of stories. Instead of dwelling on our irrelevance, we can be delighted by tiny toes. We can form our mouths into ohs and bees and ems for a purpose, not just to pass the time. At shitty middle-age, we are consumed by our children, overwhelmed by their needs and hopes and failures, but not yet swallowed by their defection to families of their own." Read more ...