all we hold

Curated by Carolyn Sirois

Gallery RAG | Gloucester, MA | July 2025

This is a continuation of the show rooted in ruins.

As participating artists explore their relationships to ruins, to gardens, plants, soil and the earth, questions guiding their work include:

What are ruins to you? what lessons/insights do they bring to the here and now? what does a healing garden mean to each individual and to the collective? what might we say of the aesthetics of ruins?

Carolyn Sirois

Collaborators
Meghan Bailey
Anne Barnes
Martha Chason-Sokol
Leah Craig
Linda Forsythe
Elizabeth Rennie
Carolyn Sirois
Wen-Hao Tien
Brian Unwin
Nicole Weber
Stephanie Williams

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Mixed media art installation titled here we are (2025) by Elizabeth Rennie and Carolyn Sirois. The piece features a wire drawing on the wall, layered with fabric (including pink tulle and sheer white and green netting), a large textured graphite and ink drawing, and sculptural elements made of sticks, mesh, string, and found objects. Organic materials and soil are scattered on the floor, creating a sense of collapse or emergence. The work evokes themes of environment, entanglement, and embodiment through its interplay of natural and synthetic textures.

Rooted in Air 16.27.07.25

Elizabeth Rennie & Carolyn Sirois
Mixed media installation
2025

Rooted in Air is a suspended meditation on fragility, memory, and transformation.
Combining dyed tulle, lace, branches, and a mix of found materials, the piece explores what it means to find grounding in the ephemeral. Hovering between stillness and movement, it evokes a quiet tension where softness becomes structure, and the weight of memory anchors even the lightest forms.
It’s a reflection on how we hold on, even when everything is in flux.