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Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope I, stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
5" x 3.75" x 1.25"
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope I (installation view), stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope I (detail), stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
5" x 3.75" x 1.25"
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope II, stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
4.5" x 4" x 1.25"
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope II (installation view), stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope II (detail), stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
4.5" x 4" x 1.25"
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope III, stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
4" x 4" x 1.25"
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope III (installation view), stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope III (detail), stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
4" x 4" x 1.25"
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope IV, stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
5.25" x 4.25" x 1.25"
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope IV (installation view), stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
2013
Lois Epperson-Gale, the metastasis of hope IV (detail), stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood, 2013
stained paper, pharmaceutical patient insert, wax, silk thread, poplar wood
5.25" x 4.25" x 1.25"
2013

a word transformed: metastasis. typically reserved for the description of a disease process—the spreading of some disaster. instead, the metastasis of hope series defines it along with another unseen and antithetical word, somewhat saccharine: hope. that which exists beneath the heaviness of fear.

the informational inserts included with medications are stained, tainted with experience, embodied. the papers torn, reconstructed, reconfigured—created as one would make a quilt, one piece at a time, stitched to remake patterns, telling complex stories visually. the wax sealing in different versions of truth. tactile visions of a new interior landcape.