Dark Gardens (2016) by Linda Huey is a dramatic and poignant work of sculpture and pottery that presents a bleak warning regarding the environmental consequences of the abuse and misuse of resources to cultivate our modern world. The piece is presented alone in a small brick vaulted chamber in the McCain Family Gallery of the Erie Art Museum. Whether this was the intention of the artist or a happy coincidence of the exhibition, the first steps through the low entryway into the chamber makes one feel as though the piece exists in a subterranean world. This gives one the sense of entering a bomb shelter or an abandoned subway after an apocalyptic event.
The first visual cue of this world, is a dull blue light that glows onto a pale sphere held
The first visual cue of this world, is a dull blue light that glows onto a pale sphere held