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The luminously layered and ethereal abstract works of Loop artists Elizabeth Babyn and Linda Heffernan both explore a theme of fragile and sacred pieces. Babyn’s Illumination exhibit features the ancient science and spiritual language that is sacred geometry while Heffernan’s Inadvertent Intervention gives us an aerial visual representation of the consequences of climate change. |
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To many, a gallery is already a revered space, yet Babyn’s Illumination exhibit enhances the feeling by welcoming the beholder with three large sparkling arched triptychs, reminiscent of stained glass. |
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Through her work Babyn unveils intricate sacred geometrical patterns and symbols in playful watery acrylic strokes through vast areas if seemingly untouched canvases. As if the paintings were created from the artist wiping her childhood hand across a frosting window, we are treated to glimpses of fleeting memories. |
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Reverie, shows us the interior of a church adorned with the ancient spiritual symbols of the Flower of Life and the Star of David. In other images we see DNA strands and the Nautilus shell-a naturally found symbol representing the golden mean number-which is eternally repeating itself and found in all living things, including the human skeleton. |
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Babyn’s pieces invite the viewer to contemplate the sometimes forgotten prevalence of such symbols and patterns in our religious architecture, in nature and in the human body. |
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Excerpt taken from Michele Speciale’s Blog
Sept. 13, 2010
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