Trevor King and David McDonough

In 1963, Stan Brakhage made Mothlight by pressing the delicate remains of moths, leaves, and other fragments of the natural world between strips of clear film. There is no camera, no conventional image, no representation of a moth in flight. Instead, the moth itself becomes the image. Its wings pass through the projector’s light and become flicker, shadow, color, and movement. The flux and debris of life is transformed into a rapid, hypnotic, vision. This trajectory from the world of impressions into the physical world, and vice versa, is at the heart of Mothlight.

The exhibition brings together the work of Trevor King and David McDonough, two artists who approach object and image not as something fixed or certain, but as something that emerges through acts of making. Their works occupy the space between the recognizable world and the world as it is felt, imagined, or half-remembered.