CATHODE GARDEN
EUTERPE • 7m 45s
A young woman moves between light and dark, life and death; a latter day Persephone. The natural world responds accordingly. Neglected negatives, abandoned envelopes, botanical and anatomical illustrations along with found home-made recordings re-order themselves, collapsing and re-emerging in her liminal world.
“Janie Geiser’s gift for cutting between private, encoded images to create dense montages that defy ready interpretation, as vibrant as ever in CATHODE GARDEN.“ - Tony Pipilo, Art Forum
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