Materializing memory looks like:kitchen heirlooms woven through generations of wise hands / holding rocks, mounds and roots of the west coast / building altars of balance to the mysterious and the familial / antique glass bottles and stories emerging from rain soaked land / rising water, 50 inches / threads of matters past, released from their retired forms,meeting heat, pressure, and time, labor and care to become:slathered milky grains of salt / chalky peels of charcoal lace / sedimentary specimen of colorful acrylics / wavy traces of wet porcelain / scrunched, bubbling pinned plastics / and golden digits stuck in carbon mortar.

- Kelly Johnson