Works by
Michael Talbot
THEN - NOW contains work spanning a number of past exhibitions: The Fragility Series, Salvation: Redux, Warriors In The Garden, I Am Not Your Judas, and More Than Acquiantances. This showcase acts as a celebration of past works, reframing them with a focus on the duality of Holding On vs Letting Go, and the role Time plays within both.
Previously on display during the kick-off event for the Somerville Art Fair at Upstairs at Bow Market, THEN - NOW is now on display at the Harvard Square Kiosk throughout the month of August.
For sale inquiries, please contact Michael Talbot directly at mikeytalbot@gmail.com or call/text (508) 948-5653.
Price: $1,500 each
If you were faced with who you would become, would you reach out willingly or would you shy away from the burdens and responsibilities you never asked for? Only Time could tell...
If you were faced with who you once were, would you reach out longingly or would you accept your reality and the tasks at hand that now define you? If only Time would tell...
- Fragility - Part 1 -
Price: $1,750
Having waited in the Balance for longer than they could remember, the Wanderer decided it was time to finally take action.
Let go. Get up. Take the first step.
- Salvation: Redux -
*** NOT FOR SALE ***
There's a saying: "Too much of something good isn't good for you..."
But what happens when the commodity becomes scarce and there's no longer enough to ever have "too much" again? We begin to search for and claw at anything that would even resemble our now endangered desires, not realizing the poison we started to crave.
- Warriors In The Garden -
- Price: $4,000 -
“We often grasp harder at the things that are closest to us...
Coming from all angles, contorting ourselves while coiled tightly and holding fast, not realizing how we’re suffocating the very things we pledged to protect. Before you know it, you find yourself all tangled (k).not knowing how to undo your current predicament, and finding yourself even further away from where you initially started.
When you realize that the tighter you hold on to something, the quicker it slips away... you then hold tighter still.”
- I Am Not Your Judas -
Price: $1,500 each
Take a minute to understand who you are in this very moment...
You are here.
You are present.
But you are way more than what this finite point in Time could ever define you to be. Everything you ever were, are, and ever could be is collected into this marvelous, unique vessel achored to this very moment... and you are bursting at the seams with beauty and potential.
- More Than Acquaintances -
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I invite you, the viewer, to be part of this experience -
Look to your left, pick up a pen or marker from the pedestal, and write directly on the piece, something or someone you wish to let go the memory of... Let them, and you, finally be at rest.
- More Than Acquaintances -
*** NOT FOR SALE ***
I invite you, the viewer, to be part of this experience -
Look to your right, pick up a pen or marker from the pedestal, and write directly on the piece, the name of something or someone you wish to hold on to the memory of... Keep them close, so that you'll never forget.
- More Than Acquaintances -