Of Marrow and Moss

Allison Plass, Taking Flight

Of Marrow and Moss explores the fragile architecture of human life and its entanglement with the natural world. The exhibition gathers artists who examine how the physical and emotional scaffolds we build—our bodies, homes, gardens, and cultural histories—carry memory, identity, and grief, until they eventually give way.

Across photography, these structures are rendered both intimate and expansive. A peeling tree trunk mirrors the shedding of layers of self. A fragmented spine or a fractured piano evokes the weight and impermanence of memory. Gardens, estates, and forests become repositories for personal histories, reflecting continuity and loss, growth and decay.

The works in this exhibition trace the delicate tension between endurance and collapse, between what we attempt to hold together and what life, in its inexorable course, reshapes. In these images, the human body, the built environment, and the natural world converge, revealing how our internal and external landscapes are in constant dialogue—forever holding and letting go.