DREAM FARM COMMONS MAIN GALLERY
there's no place like omChristopher Martin
October 9-November 3
Opening Friday October 9, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
there's no place like om brings together a collection of furniture and domestic objects created from reclaimed wood and shaped by Christopher Martin's evolving practice of meditation.
The exhibition begins with a familiar idea: home as a place of comfort, rest, and belonging. But Martin's work asks us to consider another possibility that home can also be an internal space, something cultivated through attention and ritual.
Rather than treating furniture solely as functional design, Martin approaches each piece as an opportunity to shape an experience. The objects ask how our surroundings affect the ways we move, rest, listen, and pay attention to our external and internal abode.
The title there's no place like om plays with the familiar longing for home while replacing "home" with the meditative sound of om. The pun points toward the central question of the exhibition:
What does it mean to make a home for stillness?
there's no place like om invites visitors to spend time with that question. To sit. To listen. To look closely. To consider the possibility that the objects surrounding us can become more than possessions — they can become participants in the rituals through which we make a life.
Opening Friday October 9, 6-8 PM
THE ANNEX
🥖 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟑𝐫𝐝, 𝟔-𝟖𝐩𝐦
For the opening, Mirro has invited @rogers_and_rosewater an organization bringing weekly meals to those facing homelessness & hunger in Oakland to share space. Megan will be donating 50% of the sales of bread art to them.
𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 explores the individuals and the elements that nourish us through an assemblage of ceramics, moving image and bread sculpture.
Whilst yeast makes dough grow transforming bread into something wild that has a life of its own, clay holds a heavy history of what came before us. By working with both baked forms in tandem Mirro invites her audience into an uncanny sculptural world that is tangible, delicious and mischievous.
🥖 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐍𝐨𝐯 𝟏𝐬𝐭: As the transition from October to November brings up many ancient traditions honoring the dead, edible entities will close with a bread workshop where participants learn to sculpt their own edible effigy to commemorate a figure who has passed or an idea that should be consumed in order to move onto a better future.
𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐩-𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟐-𝟓𝐩𝐦
