THE MOLE IN MY TOMATOES
Featuring work by Ashton Amores, Evelia Amores, Isa Beniston, Sam Bivins, Maya Buffett-Davis, Cameron Cameron, Gabby Davis, Molly Donnellon, S.A. Farzin, Jūratė Gačionytė, Ramiro Hernandez, iris yirei hu, Priscilla Mars, Cala Murry, Walker Olesen, Maya Ragazzo, Sam Regal, Lily Spitz, Erica Vincenzi, Nathan Ward, Alexander Whitmore, and Nico B. Young
THE MOLE IN MY TOMATOES
July 21-August 12, 2024
Filipinotown, Los Angeles
It’s tomato season in Los Angeles: the sun ripening the fruit, the fruit turning redder and sweeter on the vine, roots snaking down into dirt, gripping, and further down where the dirt turns dark the mole pressing its body forward, sightless, solitary, burrowing, wide flat hands and open claws pushing, making space, space stretching into tunnels, tunnels growing longer, labyrinthine, little mounds of dirt appearing above ground, only evidence of this secret constant motion, this subterranean action, removal of one thing to make another thing, a home, home in the soil, for soil is home, and the space without soil, and the motion, a felt tunneling forward, which is the artist’s work, to claw, to rearrange, to emerge suddenly into an open space that is a different tunnel, for two tunnels to meet and in the meeting of air there, between two, that junction:
—Erin Marie Lynch
