NYAB Event - Elizabeth Jaeger “Six-Thirty”

Elizabeth Jaeger “Six-Thirty”

Jack Hanley

This event has ended.

Six-Thirty: dawn or dusk; the liminal space between start and end. A domestic scene alludes to an evasive narrative. Used ceramics, stained by an evaporated liquid. Empty chairs, and a single cot, slump from an earlier weight, their hairy hide not fully appropriated from its animal origins. Beneath, behind, the fans whirl on, moving stale air around an empty room - their low oscillating hum gently croons like a siren in the distance.

A beast, a tool, and a symbol of companionship, the dog recognizes distress before we are made aware of it. Without the cacophony of consciousness, their anxiety is tethered to the signs of their owner’s body. Their knowing gaze foreshadows our own tragic dramas, before we are able to recognize and articulate what has happened.