Broken Vessels

A solo exhibition of works by E. G. Hall
Shown at Practical Art in Phoenix, AZ in November 2022

E. G. Hall has made a series of vessels which have lost their ability to hold. Many have been cut up, permanently closed or filled, or otherwise perverted beyond repair. Some of these objects are hurting, while some are experiencing the complexity of liberation. Though each has been acted upon by the artist’s crude hand, against their will — as their will is not communicable to the artist, who must, for her own sake, prioritize her own experience of the making — the vessels discover there is more to hold than matter; and as such, present themselves to you, the viewer, with dignity and structural integrity upon this stretch of white wall.




   













Turning and turning in the widening gyre   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   The ceremony of innocence is drownedThe best lack all conviction, while the worst   Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at handSurely the Second Coming is at hand.   The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   When a vast image out of Spiritus MundTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know   That twenty centuries of stony sleep    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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