Cross Your Heart: Part II
November 11, 2026 - February 28, 2027
Some threads are worth following. Building on the themes of Egg Collective’s Spring 2026 exhibition of the same name, Cross Your Heart: Part II continues the inquiry into the unseen forces of history, fate, and chance that shape creative practice. Whereas Cross Your Heart: Part I explored ritual and gesture, Part II shifts its focus to the intricate, lace-like lineage of craft. Physical, intuitive, and sometimes difficult to put into words, craft is a way of thinking in itself.
In a culture that so often locates intelligence in the mind, what might we learn from the hands? Gestures and techniques alike carry histories, preserving forms of knowledge that might otherwise be lost. Through touch, repetition, and a deep familiarity with material, the hands of a maker become vessels for knowledge accumulated over generations.
Cross Your Heart: Part II unveils new works by Egg Collective, Natalie Weinberger, Joshua Vogel, Kiva Motnyk, and Caroline Blackburn in a dialogue across materials, forms, and traditions. The works hold a certain kind of magic: the alchemical knowledge of a maker’s hands. Evoking connections between the fragile and the enduring, the ornamental and the protective, the familiar and the mysterious, they present objects as repositories of knowledge, memory, and meaning.
Like the ritual that gives Cross Your Heart: Part II its name, the exhibition considers the mystical power of the hand in motion: carving, cutting, sewing, throwing, casting, conjuring. Each action a kind of sleight of hand, through which the invisible takes form.
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