Darkness Gets
Its Due
Thursday, October 25, 2007
By Samantha Stiles
Daily Sentinel
Celebrate darkness and the anticipation
of All Hallows Eve at the 10th annual Dark Show, a
community art exhibit and costume art party at Planet
Earth & the 4 Directions
Gallery on Friday, Oct. 26.
Along with the art exhibit opening,
there will be performances by Women’s Tribal
Fusion, Burning Desert Fire Collective and music by
DJ Phoenix.
At 7 p.m., the store’s vintage
clothes get pushed aside to make room for a dance floor
and the store fills up with costumed people, said Planet
Earth employees Lyn Koch and Theresa Hochhalter.
Among the baubles and beads, hats
and scarves, trinkets, tea cups and vintage clothing,
the gallery is filled with artwork depicting a dark
vortex, red smeared paint that looks like blood and
psychedelic swirls of color on canvas.
“This exhibit is for artwork that depicts the
realm of the unknown, deep spirituality, sexuality,
waters and emotions that run deep,” wrote Planet
Earth owner Caole Lowry in a news release.
In the art show, there’s a
large painting of a cocoon stuck in a spider’s
web. Artist and teacher Carol Crockett called her piece “Wedding
feast.”
Also in the art show is the torso
and head of a male mannequin painted like a skeleton
with intestines full of pills and cupcakes, and there
is a photograph of a bride kneeling next to a gravestone.
The Dark Show “celebrates the darker side of
things,” said Ryan Stringfellow, a performer
with Burning Desert Fire Collective.
He has been attending The Dark Show
for several years, and this is the fire troupe’s
second year to perform.
The fire troupe plans to wear black-and-white
costumes to match the “without dark there is no light” theme
while they spin and twirl flaming poi, hula hoops,
wear crowns of fire, walk on stilts and more.
“Fire performance in itself is such a passionate
expression of movement and art and excitement,” Stringfellow
said.
The fire troupe also is set to perform
at the Grand Junction Rotary Club’s Masquerade
on Saturday, Oct. 27, www.masqueradegj.com.
What: The 10th annual Dark Show.
When: Friday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m.
Where: Planet Earth & the 4 Directions Gallery,
524 Colorado Ave.
Tickets: $7 donation.
Info: Call 256-9630.
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