Growth happens in ideas before it becomes an embodiment. We first understand the notion of seeds becoming trees, of raindrops forming puddles that lead us to rivers, of rocks that kiss to form mountains, of cells evolving to form life. These fragments of the experience of living—of growing—is what Is Jumalon pieces together, not just in fractions of time, but by welcoming new forms to come into being. This exhibit is a looking-in and a looking back on the inescapable shards, framing them together to call the viewer to forget the need to find or to make sense of the works, but instead, to beckon them to trek through with the experience of the senses themselves. A house stands as a reminder of the intangible particles that hold it up—the pigments that make us see things to begin with. Fresh eyes are born in the understanding of the elusive visibility of growth. Each work in this collection is a self-reflexive collation of all things that make up our existence without forcing us to find its purpose.

This collection is a movement to re-member: to put together pieces of what we know and acknowledge that not all things can be known. It is an act of birthing something new than merely focusing on the past. Is takes this in each work: the humbling process of growth, the rich and diverse flora and fauna of the portions that make up what is commonly grand, and the stillness that comes with consciously expanding one’s work and one’s place in this immense space of existence. The thing about things is that growth is in the process and a parcel of nature.

Jo Almanzor