Vide Poche

Pockets and their contents

Taking the vide poche as its starting point, Orcas Paley's sixth annual group show considers the little things we carry through the day, and our efforts to contain them, on our bodies and at home.

On view October 17 - November 3 at Orcas Paley, 1914 2nd Avenue. Artist reception, Friday October 18, 5-7pm. Closing reception, Sunday November 3, 4-6pm.

URSULA BROOKBANK

She World Enumeration, 2014

Video, 05:46

A mystery of feminine objects found in drawers, closets, tiny boxes, and purses hinting at the lives of women were documented on Super 8 film. A triptych projection of the films was shown at the Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles. This is the video version of that event.

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POCKET DOORS

by Coleman Stevenson, 2024

When I moved into my new home, an over 100 year old house, I was given a large, unruly pile of keys. A few days later I began the process of trying them all in all the doors of the house and outbuildings, matching up and labeling the keys that fit, and setting aside the ones that had no corresponding lock on the property, despite being kept all these years. Two years later, those keys remained with me, housed in an old tin, doors still unfound…

When considering the theme of “vide-poche” I thought about both practical and magical items that I habitually carry with me when I leave the house. I thought about all the small natural items that feel intuitively significant enough to pick up, place in a pocket, and carry across the threshold into my home. Thinking about thresholds, entry, and doors made me recall the orphaned keys. What if they weren’t keys to nothing, but, in fact, keys to doors that just weren’t apparent? These doors began to materialize as I remembered hidden features revealed through renovation, seasonal shifts that unveiled beautiful buried potential, and undeniably mystical phenomena experienced since entering this house.

In honor of these special liminal spaces I’ve been allowed to witness (AND the original full size set separating my living room from my library), here are my “pocket doors”, accompanied by their corresponding keys, opening onto glimpses of secret things:

Allison Arth

Trail Mix, 2024

Paper trail maps, paracord

Dimensions variable

NFS

Following health diagnoses that have limited his activity, my father, a lifelong hiker and climber, divested his collection of trusted trail maps — those frayed and fragile paper guides he folded into his huge cargo pockets as he left home in the pre-dawn dark to traverse some tract of wilderness, to summit some new peak. Whenever we pushed ourselves to the top of a bluff, a butte, a ridge, a mountain, he would say, "It sure was worth all that work, wasn't it?"

In Trail Mix, I've transitioned Dad's maps into a chain of origami fortune tellers: this collection of representational terrain, of trails taken (and not taken), trace my father's footsteps, and in their new form, compose a collection of potential paths, of chance led by choice, of pocketable possibilities.

Saya Moriyasu

Seedy Sandy Pockets, 2024

Ceramic, glaze, rocks

10” x 12” x 2”

$400

Courtesy J. Rinehart Gallery

Aimee Hagedorn

Pocket (Love Notes), 2024

Cotton fabric, embroidery floss

X” x X”

$85

Jane Littlefield

Brooches, 2024

Glass, kiln fired paint ,22 carat gold leaf

0.8”

$38

Allison Arth

Trail Mix, 2024

Paper trail maps, paracord

Dimensions variable

NFS

Following health diagnoses that have limited his activity, my father, a lifelong hiker and climber, divested his collection of trusted trail maps — those frayed and fragile paper guides he folded into his huge cargo pockets as he left home in the pre-dawn dark to traverse some tract of wilderness, to summit some new peak. Whenever we pushed ourselves to the top of a bluff, a butte, a ridge, a mountain, he would say, "It sure was worth all that work, wasn't it?"

In Trail Mix, I've transitioned Dad's maps into a chain of origami fortune tellers: this collection of representational terrain, of trails taken (and not taken), trace my father's footsteps, and in their new form, compose a collection of potential paths, of chance led by choice, of pocketable possibilities.

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