"Fluctuating Capacity" travels through time at SooVAC

"I have decided to leave your father's machine to Jimmy in the will," she writes. "I know this is not what you want, and I'm sorry if you think I don't care about your opinions, but I hope that you understand my desire for the retrieval of his life. This whole thing is so inconceivable, sometimes I feel like we are in some kind of crazy dream." 

With the unnamed, time-machine installation at the center, Hamilton's pieces pay homage to the time-travel fantasies that have become a part of our cultural imagination. Birds fly through portals, while molecular models, embalming fluid, and ominous ducks percolate the gallery in a narrative to be pieced together. The work tells a story -- although not in any linear fashion. As you experience each piece, it takes you on a journey of sorts through past and present trauma, and, ultimately, into our collective psyche. 

Conspiracy by Adam Hamilton

Hamilton effortlessly blends sculptural and painting traditions, with the result being that the pieces are both/neither paintings and sculptures. In one work, a deconstructed antique telephone with a duck on top attaches to a painting of a mid-century car being pulled out of a lake. The painting itself displays three-dimensional qualities, with its curious tag on the side of it.

In some cases, you don't know where one piece ends and another begins. Does the box full of embalming fluid belong with the horse-person looking into the tesseract, or with the rubber duck painting/sculpture? You can't be sure, and in a way it doesn't really matter. This isn't an exhibition of individual pieces, but rather a well thought out world and storyline. 

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