Galerie Isa presents Correspondence, Louise Despont explores the ways in which the fabric of our material world is intrinsically interwoven with the forms and forces of the invisible world. Botanic, geologic, and animalic forms of sentience and understanding are at the center of these works—in which Despont considers the spaces of communion and the various dialects of correspondence that embody other forms of consciousness. While her earlier drawings were focused on the themes of polarity and vibration—as related to pattern, sound, healing, and homeopathy—her recent works are deeply aligned with the hermetic principle of correspondence—as above, so below—which limns the elemental connection between different states of consciousness, or planes of existence, and shows how they affect one another by creating a resonant bond.Comprising of small collage works on paper alongside large-scale drawings on antique canvas, Correspondence envisions an animistic worldview, in which plants, animals, stones, stars, ancestors, and entire landscapes possess a distinct spiritual essence that permeates the visible and invisible world. These correspondences are well documented on the physical plane: phosphorus can be found in a fawn’s finest bone; copper is detected in the vocal chord of a sparrow; the residue of a rabbit’s skeleton may manifest in the stem of a wild poppy. But how does the intelligence of the invisible—the inner life of plants, animals, and ancestors—inhabit and inform human consciousness
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