Roots, Water, Air - Brattleboro Museum & Art Center

October 26, 2024 - March 8, 2025

In the site-specific exhibition Roots, Water, Air, interdisciplinary artist Adrienne Elise Tarver crafts a lush experience where nature is the beholder of time and space, and where nature is revered for its brilliance, patience, and ways of being in harmony with itself.

Connectivity is a vital part of nature that can be easily overlooked. Roots of trees inch their way through tracts of soil. They absorb water to nourish the leaves and branches in the open air and the sun’s light. Each element of nature depends on another. Similarly, like the roots of trees, the genetics of people extend through unknown generations of humans. Our collective family tree links us to thousands of generations of ancestors who existed and advanced under the same sun, traversing the same land and sea. With the passage of time, beginnings and endings become perpetual partners. Life and death cycles can be observed as one extensive gesture. This perspective of continuity and kinship inspires Roots, Water, Air.