Rachel Avena Brown’s new installation entitled Nuclear Fusion is a depiction of fusion, a form of nuclear energy generated when lightweight atoms fuse together. The artist has illustrated the fusion reaction that occurs when deuterium and tritium combine to produce helium, a neutron, and excess energy. The positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons of each atom are represented, in this installation, through knitted yarn while excess energy can be seen in the form of a projected digital video.

The artist writes: Nature, scientific diagrams and the study of the mind are informing my new projects. Patterns found in the universe are in constant connection with the human experience and condition these fractals are fixed and unchanging. Our understanding of nuclear fusion may remain the same, while time moves forward. Reoccurring patterning is possibly what relates us all to each other and informs our fundamental belief system. I am also making connections between knitting and digital pixel imaging.

There is a soulful prayer that cries out from the darkness of ones own chest, through listening the Light will present itself. Some may not be able to hear their own chest, and they refuse to, it is my prayer that the Light finds you and guides you towards love.

“Jesus said to them, ‘The light will be among you only a little while. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light.”

The New American Bible. Saint Joseph Edition. John 12:35. Catholic Book Publishing Corp. New York. 1992

“Early Friends proclaimed that from the beginning every person has been endowed with the capacity to enter directly, without mediator or mediation, into an empowering holy communion with God. They rejected, therefore, the assumption that this communion, which is essential to spiritual health, occurs primarily in the presence of designated persons in an established religious institution using sacred language and rituals. Friends, both in individual worship and in meetings for worship and for business, continue to experience the presence of the living God not only as awe and healing but also as guidance for conduct. Like the prophets of Israel they proclaim the unity of religious faith and social justice.
The Religious Society of Friends continues to affirm that refreshment of spirit and the ability both to know and do right come when families and individuals, in daily life and in meeting, trust in the Light that enlightens and empowers everyone who comes into the world.”

Faith and Practice. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Fifteenth and Cherry Streets. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-1479. December, 2007

Rachel DeTrinis


“‘Faith’, ‘Love,’ and ‘Hope’
Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease.”

-G.I. Gurdjieff from Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson

Jason Leinwand


I am just a medium. History and poetry provide no solace. I've made these talismans as a resurrection effort. It may take the tying of infinite threads to open a portal. In the hopes that physical representation achieves more than representation I will bring back the dead, and even this will be transitory. Discovering my teeth are the only part of my skeleton I will ever see, they are treasures. As linoleum is carved away, or acid bites into a line in the alchemy of print I find myself excavating other treasures that have been left behind. I am just a medium. This is what I found, what to wear, this is the map, this is the time and force needed. At 3 a.m. repeat this phrase 6 times, then 6 times, then 6 times, "You are alive again."

Lindsay Kane

Till Morning is a group exhibition featuring the work of Rachel DeTrinis, Kelly Gazlay, and Erika Somogyi. These three artists are all makers of things, using handmade principles of construction, painting, and newer media. The issue of time arises in the works, through the visibly repetitious processes used by the artists in the act of creation, and a space embedded in Americana traditions and the History of Pop Culture. The exhibition concentrates on relationships that become fixed, while the world changes and moves forth, the two, or group of individuals, remain permanently engaged and rooted in time. Peter and Wendy, and the brood of children, all try exhaustibly to protest this unreliable world, an irregular state of being, in which one cannot predict or control any outcome. The world of Neverland also attracted Michael Jackson, to stop time and stay the same in an eternal state of bliss.

slow down time, stay the
same, forever we will wait,
to begin again

In outer space, large planets, stars, rocks, and matter, are all floating through an infinite amount of space. If within this space a set of eyes appeared and began to examine earth and its inhabitants, we may all become one in the same. Pictures from satellites of our neighborhoods do this. Cars all look like variations of the same shape and houses, big or small become squares; people, tiny circles.
Our conflicts although significant and meaningful are actually not as individualized, as they may seem. In literature, three distinct categories have been named to describe all issues one may have through life, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, and Man vs. Nature. These categories are comforting. Their existence is proof that we are not alone in pain and we are not alone in love. All feelings are vibrations created from one entity and passed through space to another.
This is an exhibition of two artists whom have shared a dialogue in and out of their studios that stimulates and motivates their own work. They possess a shared love for process and exploration of multiple mediums. Whether living hundreds of miles away, or in the same city, these works reflect commonalities they embrace, while depicting autonomous perspectives of the artists. Themes thread together, like electric wires, passing back and forth inspections of life through the exhibited works, and a close correspondence between them.