Rich Soil at Jay Heritage Center
THIS EXHIBITION HAS ENDED AT THIS LOCATION.
Rich Soil is a body of sculptures created from thousands of pieces of wire, looped, overlapped, and hooked together in a way in which the human form is revealed.
The exhibit is composed of 29 pieces each grouped into seven vignettes. It is on view at the Jay Heritage Center September 9 through November 17th, 2024.
Rich Soil challenges people to acknowledge the ancestors, the workers of the land, the bodies that have been used and treated as disposable. The artwork moves beyond beauty and decoration– provoking thoughts of spirituality, racial justice, and humanity. Loosely inspired by the Alvin Ailey dancers, it has accentuated ideas of freedom, reverence, and worship with the ever-changing ecology of the land as its stage.
While so many stories have been unearthed as the exhibit travels the significance of its current location is that the Jay Heritage Center has names of actual ancestors. In New York Mays has been able to attach actual human beings to her story due to the rich history that has been shared in this space.
** All work is for sale. For more information contact Kristine Mays at kristine@kristinemays.com