SEPTEMBER 2025
CENTER GALLERY
Conversations|Listening | Deborah Hansen
The topics in the show are common to human experience: Dreaming, Sorrow, Power and Justice, Life and Death. I came to think of them not just as topics of conversation, but concepts which permeate art, writing, and religion. I use an extinct language, fairy tales, and ideas I see in the news, as well as a retelling of Christ’s story, as a vehicle for conversing and listening to what is happening to us. Is the concept of Justice no longer a subject of conversation? Do we talk about Power and its use? Do we listen to our dreams? Is Christ an immigrant? Does it matter? Can we talk about it?
Photographs by Hans Hallinen