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Form of Indeterminate Purpose by W. Vandoren Wheeler May 3 Social worker dropped it off: only thing left in Dad’s lastest apartment. She said she found it set in the exact center of the living room. Typical Dad, no note. Oblique little trash obelisk. May 7 No contact from Dad for days—no letter, no nothing. No trace, online or elsewhere. He is gone. Gone gone. May 18 I must assume Dad left this worthless trinket for me, but it’s not anything I remember. Started searching through old photographs, scanning backgrounds of snapshots and polaroids. Borrowed a slide projector to cycle through the family shoebox. Late into the night, the carousel’s shu-kah, shu-kah. Stared past us to scan countertops, bookshelves, terra cotta pots-their black holes of soil from which off-green plants spring…. Found nothing. June 11 Sent the mystery token off to a lab. They ran the basics, came back with the obvious: 3.729 ounces, ceramics of unknown origin, 13 gauge steel wire for internal structural support, oxidized by Father Time. “Form of indeterminate purpose.” Wow, thanks. June 16 Not only do I not have any, today I realized I would stomp-squash any hope might sprout. What I do have is this clue. The form is the thing. I can hold it, this solid artifact. This key. I’m turning it into a totem, an unread message. June 22 Sent that stupid mute trash amulet to a better lab, somewhere upstate. Coughed up for the works. June 25 Carbon dating puts it at 1972. Good start, but waiting for results from all available separatory methods: selective precipitation, filtration, complexation, osmosis, Form of Indeterminate Purpose
Forms of Indeterminate Purpose by Van Wheeler Posted March 17, 2024
Profile of powerful Black women. Godhead Preview and workshop
Bring your story ideas and your imagination to this workshop about making interactive webcomics led by Carmi Tronci Bell. Posted March 8, 2024
Artwork in the gallery Jenene Nagy
The Weight Dates: March 6 – May 4, 2024 Artist talk and gallery reception: Thursday, April 18, 11am-1pm Gallery hours: […] Posted March 6, 2024
(promotional image description) image of five people carrying a large quilt in a desert near the mountains Managed Retreat by Dawn Stetzel
Dawn Stetzel, Communal Moving Blanket, 2023  Exhibition Dates: March 7, 2024 – April 13, 2024 Opening event: Thursday, March 7th, […] Posted February 25, 2024
Image of hero with blue face wearing a winged helmet. Sunkeepers Screening
Part of the Refractions Screening Series made possible through a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC). Posted February 22, 2024
Artwork Michael Fujita
Sticks and Stones Dates: January 25 – February 23, 2024 Artist talk and gallery reception: Wednesday, February 14, 11am-1pm Gallery […] Posted February 20, 2024
Glass white and pink pillow, folded and on the floor. Heidi Schwegler | Existential Action Thriller (EAT)
The North View Gallery is excited to announce our spring show, Existential Action Thriller (EAT), featuring new work by artist Heidi Schwegler. Posted February 5, 2024
Three images from left to right. Painting of a dark room. Middle image of framed wok with lines moving throughout the composition. Photographic image with a floating cutaway of an interior space with black to blue gradient background. Trace Extractions by Stephanie Serpick, Victoria Smits, and Stefani Byrd
  Left to right: Stephanie Serpick, Void of Modern Life #3, 2021, oil on panel, 16” x 20”; Victoria Smits, […] Posted December 22, 2023
Painting of person holding out arms with counting hatch marks on the wall behind them. Una Kim | Battlegrounds
The North View Gallery is pleased to announce our January show, Battlegrounds, an exhibition of new work by HARTS (Humanities and Arts Initiative) Artist in Residence, Una Kim. Posted December 16, 2023
Micky B, Kai & G Connection | Isolation Connection: Isolation, a film by G. Chesler
A documentary film and act of witnessing what has been lost, gained, and revealed to trans and gender variant people […] Posted December 4, 2023