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Amy Beeler – Domestic Lines: Quiet Rituals

Overview

Rooted in the rituals of home, this exhibition explores the quiet power of domestic life and its role in shaping identity, memory, and intergenerational connection. Using cotton clothesline as both material and metaphor, the artist transforms traditional household practices, like laundry, food preparation, and gardening, into sculptural forms that evoke backyard spaces, family gatherings, and shared labor. Each piece carries emotional weight, drawing from personal narratives, loss, and the enduring influence of women in the artist’s life. While honoring the beauty and meaning of inherited traditions, the work also acknowledges the evolution of domestic life, validating the ways modern routines and roles can exist alongside the old. Yet there is still loss; the absence of those who once upheld these rituals, the fading of shared moments around the table, and the quiet disappearance of customs once passed down through generations. Through touch, scent, and visual storytelling, the exhibition becomes a sensory meditation on memory, resilience, and the ties that bind past and present, old and new, together in one intimate space.

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