the creative insomniac

Stephanie Buer’s “Hiraeth.”

Opening on Saturday, November 13th, 2021 at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California is artist Stephanie Buer’s solo exhibition, “Hiraeth.”

Hiraeth is a Gaelic word, meaning to miss/long for a place that you can never visit again. It perfectly captures the emotions felt by Buer for her beloved Packard Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Once a sprawling, lawless urban metropolis that was the epicenter of a decaying Detroit, as the city pulls itself up by the boot straps, the Packard Plant has slowly begun to be torn down and is no longer the playground for urban explorers it once was. Hiraeth is Buer’s love letter to the Packard, painted on small wood panels that are meant to recall the look and feeling of flipping through printed photographs and reliving memories of one’s past, a past that can no longer be revisited, as you look through the images… of what once was.

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Maldha Mohamed.

Astounding paintings that combine realism and texture by artist Maldha Mohamed, who lives and works in Maldives.

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