From Within: Switcher Owls local The Cranbrook Art Museum

The Cranbrook Art Museum

25""My work is what it is

all intertwined in an elaborate narrative full of excess and consumption

17” x 4”

experimentation

From Within: Switcher Owls local The Cranbrook Art MuseumArtist: Alyssa Taylor WendtFrom Within: Switcher Owls, 2022 Ceramic, photograph, brass peephole Wendt's From Within ceramic series, is based on Egyptian canopic jars and Stanhope viewers. Inspired by the isolation of the recent pandemic, each of the fourteen jars all contain a group portrait of the other 13 jars, the idea being that we carry those whom we are connected to inside of us. Like Walt Whitmans I contain multitudes, this project incorporates