In Forever, a series of photographs portrays the artist mother’s loving yet obsessive collection of beanie babies preserved in found plastic packing materials as well as clear Ziploc bags. The photographs are at first glimpse personable; however the literal and somewhat amusing presentation of beanie babies enclosed in plastic bags becomes more unnerving upon examining the logical yet perverse nature of encapsulation as a cherished act of preservation.

Caroline Cox explores the mutability of perception in an installation that engulfs the architectural space of the gallery with intricate patterns of intertwined objects. The installation’s juxtaposition of disparate but interrelated objects conjure up colonies of obscure life forms that inhabit the fringes of an optic megalopolis. The central section of Cox’s installation consists of trolling lures that suspends a mass of glass lenses, crystal balls, fish floats, mesh pouches, and chandelier crystals over a field of mirrors.