Be Softer, Be Stranger featuring Carmen Cano
June 12th - July 31st 2026
Artist Reception Friday, July 10th 5-8pm
Purchased work can be taken home/ shipped right away.

A % of Proceeds from this exhibition will be donated to the UN Venezuela Humanitarian Fund
Donations go directly to the Venezuela Humanitarian Fund, which partners with dozens of trusted local NGOs and frontline responders. It is considered one of the fastest and most efficient ways to get aid to people in need. https://crisisrelief.un.org/en/donate-venezuela-crisis

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

Carmen Camo "Cosmic"

Carmen Camo "Cosmic"