Moths to Light exhibition catalog introduction
“Brainchild of the multi-talented Madelaine Shellaby (and her many alter-egos that lay claim to the breadth of the work), the narrative of Jeremie Joseph unfolds through the carefully conjured and collected artifacts of his life. ”
Articles by Ilene Dube
“For her work titled “Cabbages” – iridescent red leaves of an ornamental plant – the responses she received has been “dancing,” “calligraphy,” “inflamed.””
“Shellaby responds to a poem by Charles Simic, entitled Stone, which begins “Go inside a stone/That would be my way./ Let somebody else become a dove/ Or gnash with a tiger’s tooth./ I am happy to be a stone.”
“Shellaby’s digital print shows the Lake Peligre Dam in Haiti. When the dam was built on the Artibonite River in 1956 it caused flooding which thereby destroyed the livelihood of farming communities. Shellaby was inspired by the story told by Paul Farmer, found in Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder.”