Pleasure Dome at Five Flights Up
Mira O’Brien’s most recent paintings remind me of the title of Jorie Graham’s first book of poems, “Hybrid of Plants and Ghosts”, a phrase borrowed from Nietzche to describe a human’s composite nature. Graham’s early poems announced a radical, electric vision of ironic contradiction, a deciphering of self and place, of nature and language. In short, a hymn to connectedness in the guise of fragmentation. O’Brien’s paintings work in much the same way, offering colors as pulsations, natural forms as conduits, details as tersely phrased aphorisms. – Colin Heurter (curator of Five Flights Up)
