AFVS Faculty Annete Lemieux will be showing her work at RUBY CITY IRRATIONALLY SPEAKING

Derived from items Annette Lemieux found, this sculpture was made in the late 1980s when the country experienced rapid changes due to technology, including the development of personal computers, the first cellular phones and video cameras, many of which made earlier objects obsolete. Preservation can be likened to an emblem, symbolic of this cycle—as implied by the sheet music of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons (c. 1723)— with objects or any creative output moving from creation to utilization and then obsolescence. Lemieux seems to suggest preservation may be called for at times to interrupt the cycle. Read more