infinitely divisible matter,mattered less and less

For Margaret Withers' current works on paper she layers watercolor and ink, based on color, viscosity, and texture, onto a white background to form the landscapes of her anti-story. Eyes connected by tendrils to high-gloss enamel mouths within the landscape become characters. Flat black-and-white houses and telephone poles are woven into the compositions and evoke a kind of once-upon-a-time mythical world that is both playful and disquieting. This series is inspired by her childhood in the rural American South of the 1970's and conveys the interplay between the remembered physical landscape of that time and her emotional landscape past and present.

Behind Kant, everything was happening at once

whizzing by large and infinitely numerous things

staring out at absolute space