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“Anastasia Pelias, a New Orleans native, brings a broom with her each time she visits It was my pleasure (2021), her site-specific sculptural installation located in the city’s Mid-City/Bayou St. John neighborhood. She sweeps magenta pine bark and bay leaves back into a neat circle around the sculpture’s mounded base. This sweeping is her ritual; Pelias tends to the site the same way one might tend to a garden or a grave.”
In playing with the tension between the visible and the invisible, Ellis’s work invokes a dominant theme in the rhetoric
This strained, surreal, tragic-yet-impassioned relationship with love thematically underscores much of the work in Toor’s show, which focuses on how
Inside the Chamber of Wonders, nature and man collide. This seems the crux of the education we all receive on