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Seeking the Source is a project by the artist Hey There Kapplow, commissioned for the exhibition Waterlines, currently on view at the Museum. It uses water as a metaphor for intuition and the tenacious persistence of the practice of dowsing in the modern world as a symbol of our capacity to retain and nurture intuitive understanding even while we rely on technologies and enlightenment-age logic for our day-to-day operations in a way that would seem to make intuition obsolete.
The exhibition hosts a collection of ‘objects with soundtracks’ that evolved out of an interest in the contemporary coexistence of the folk practice of dowsing (water divining) alongside more modern methods of detecting and assessing the presence of water underground.
Portrait Of A Divining Rod (pictured above) was created collectively during a lightly structured conversation about intuition led by artist Heather Kapplow and storyteller/doula Sara Domingo Brouner at the ARoS Museum in Aarhus Denmark. On view at the Museum through March 2023. Visit Waterlines — Somerville Museum
Curated by Community Curator, Arlinda Shtuni, Waterlines: Stories of Urban Ebb and Flow presents newly rendered works by five noted local artists that invite us to consider the ecological, spiritual, and social dimensions of water and ask us to reawaken our personal connection with it.
Participating Artists:
A+J Art + Design/ Ann Hirsch + Jeremy Angier
Caitlin & Misha
Faith Johnson
Georgie Friedman
Heather Kapplow
ADMISSION: $5*/person; Somerville Museum active members free (with code MEMBER); no charge for children under 12 years old. Admission to this event also includes exhibition admission.
*All proceeds help support exhibitions, programs, and the operations of the Museum. The Somerville Museum is a private non-profit, mostly volunteer-run organization.
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