Through May 5.
Spring appears to be here, and with it comes that ritual purge known as spring-cleaning.
For me, this annual throwaway is fueled by a mild form of memento mori , the uncomfortable knowledge that if I died tomorrow, someone would go through my things. This is the question invoked by Kathy Glowen's Petland , albeit in a much prettier manner. You could piece this story together from a shoebox full of Amtrak ticket stubs and coasters from Portland strip clubs. Glowen has taken all the worldly possessions of one Mamie Laura Rand, a Spokane lady who died in 1995 at the age of 101, and channeled them into an installation that creates a portrait of a life in negative space. One piece, For Life , is made up of an old-fashioned bed frame buttressed all around by feed sacks that have photos sewn to them with all manner of buttons, both simple and ornate.