We’ve all been a bit “away with the fairies” at some point, especially recently. Time, already elusive, feels different since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Things feel different, worse somehow, pressurized. We’re chronically online and distracted, either consciously or unconsciously dissociating. In our extreme world, maybe you’ve leaned into something like micro-dosing mushrooms, maybe overspending, maybe exercising obsessively. Things that feel tangible, within our control, of our own bodies. Whatever it is, on some level, the goals are stability and survival. To be “away with the fairies”—what was once a way to say someone is a bit loopy and elsewhere—now feels like a necessary quality to incorporate into our lives. Focusing on our own personal whimsy and on our own little circles and bodies, on that which is within our reach, has become a coping mechanism.

 

The artists in this show are reacting to the current times with their own hallucinogenic realities - away with their fairies, so to speak. How and why this manifests is different for each of them.

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