NOURISH Gallery | Art, Furniture, Paintings, Objects, Sculpture

“We are, in our intentions to move forward, heroic, extending an empathetic hand and knowing ear.”

If we’ve learned anything from this pandemic, it’s our need for substance and purpose: love, beauty, and joy. The importance of how we live and knowing who we are. It’s been a telling time, one of loss, mental strain, and questioning who we are, and where we wish to go in our lives. Words lack the ability to express true emotion as we attempt to discuss this troubling era, and the words we read seem massive on the pages we dare to read. We are, in our intentions to move forward, heroic, extending an empathetic hand and knowing ear.

**NOURISH Gallery** **| SENTIENT | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Carl Barnett | Gaia Starr**

“Beauty and nature are intrinsic to who we are, our intuitive selves born from the stars, roots, and water.”

**NOURISH Gallery** **| Liadain Warwick Smith | Laura Kastin | Carl Barnett**

Here, beauty may seem contrary, but in fact, a necessary salve that speaks to our needs, transcending sorrow, fear, and doubt. It allows us to settle into the comfort of who we are, what we know to be true and everlasting. Beauty and nature are intrinsic to who we are, our intuitive selves born from the stars, roots, and water. It is beauty, no matter how one sees it, that pierces the eye and mirrors the self, soothing if not for a moment, the body and the mind. It is beauty that reminds us who we are, and what we can achieve if we pause, just for a moment, and see within and around us.

What beauty does is why we collect and even create, it is the universal language that binds all cultures and transcends time, going back before language defined what beauty is, and is not.