Animism takes many forms.
Hernan Bas
’s
Feeding Time in the Little Shop of Horrors depicts two brothers surrounded by carnivorous plants from Venus Fly Traps to the Pitchers that consume small birds, bats and frogs. Hollywood is not alone in imagining that meat-eating vegetables are possessed by menacing souls. By contrast,
Margo Wolowiec
’s weavings explore the healing powers attributed to silver, a natural antibacterial. Interwoven with images of nature and in monochrome panels, sterling silverleaf threads brighten, lighten and act as a spiritual antidote to calamities of global warming and ill health.
