Be Softer, Be Stranger featuring Carmen Cano
Opens June 12th - On view through July 31st 2026
Join us Friday, June 12th 5-8pm for an Artist Reception during Belltown Art Walk!
Purchased work can be taken home/ shipped starting July 5th.
***We highly recommend using public transportation when visiting us in June and early July, due to daily World Cup activities happening in the Downtown area, including inside Pacific Place where we are located.
Fragility as strength, scale as community, guardianship
as care, and the tension between protection
and permeability.
A wall of porcelain guardians, less arranged
than enlisted, mustering against a fragile present
and whatever future waits beyond. Each figure is small,
but together they accumulate like a tide.
Faces, symbols, hybrid forms echo into one another until
the wall becomes a field of alertness, a steady pulse. Edge
to edge, they form a wall of protection that reveals its
own permeability.
They remind us that care is not heroic,
but an ongoing, distributed labor, carried by many small,
unremarkable acts.
They arrive as emissaries from the future,
not with warnings, but with reminders: Be softer,
be stranger, be kinder, tread carefully, shelter hope.
Each piece is unique, crafted by hand from porcelain
Learn more about Carmen HERE
image: Depth, handmade porcelain, 6" x 5" ready to hang
