Luis Bermudez invites us into the earth. Through his eyes and hands, we can see the mineral world in a smaller, organized way -- not to impose ourselves on it, but to reduce our fear and to locate a place of balance.
Bermudez allegorizes earthly and animal beauty. His forms and glazes seem recognizable, often without being identifiable. We want to go inside his sculptures, because we feel we have been there.
To go into the clay is to enter a place that moves, changes, breathes. Bermudez knows that a mountain or a sculpture stands still only for a moment, and only if the viewer stands still too. It is born every second.
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Up through May 11; gallery website here; Bermudez website here.
Recommended listening: Christopher Garcia's Xochi Cuicatl, especially track 3 from "Resonancia" and track 1 from "Resiliencia."