Gray flowers for a gray time
“Every Flower Touched” (handmade charcoal, commercial charcoal and wood ash on Fabriano), by Beatrice Modisett, at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Mass.
Montserrat says she uses “physical processes like working with charcoal to explore geology and erosion, along with the systems that humans create to navigate, control and contain the landscape around them.’’
Beverly, on the North Shore, is an unusual mix of Boston suburb, some of it rich and some of it middle class, summer resort and former major manufacturing center.
“View of the Beach at Beverly, Massachusetts, 1860,’’ John Frederick Kensett
1879 map of the sites of Beverly.
Vintage postcard of the long-gone United Shoe Machinery Corp’s flagship factory in Beverly, since repurposed.