Thea Augustina Eck's
It Is Never Tomorrow is a series of photographs that retells the story of rescue missions to find Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and members of his Northwest Passage expedition in 1845. The images recall the Victorian romanticization of a desolate landscape where bold men staked their claim to land. Stark gray-white skies and icy seascapes contrast with the figures, who symbolically reap evidence of the tragedy and re-examine the unknown. Eck's work is part of the Charlotte Street Foundation's
Re-Search: Three Projects showing at the Paragraph Gallery (23 East 12th Street, 816-221-5115) through January 7. Also showing are KCAI grad Erika Lynn Hanson's
The Icebergs and multimedia artist Hillary Wiedemann's
Sans Soleil (Diffracted). For more information, see
charlottestreet.org.
— Berry Anderson
816-221-5115
