Work in Ana Flores’s show “Wood River,’’ at Boston Sculptors Gallery, through March 31.
The gallery says the show features sculpture from her “Sacred Grove’’ and “Cultivate’’ series, “celebrating our powers to rebuild and reinvigorate the landscape, and offering a glint of optimism in the face of our dangerous human default of destruction and deforestation. Flores lives at the edge of the forest by the Wood River in southern Rhode Island. Working manually on her land over the years, she feels the land also worked on her, reawakening a deep ‘sense of place.’ For Flores, the phrase is no longer metaphorical. The artist contends that her sense of place is just as real as her sense of smell or sight—a multi-sensory connection and understanding of not only the biological history of a place, but also of its layered human traces.’’
The Wood River watershed
