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Culture, environment and region affect our internalized view of humanity. In the Spheres exhibit, Yozo Takada and Huang Zhiling, visiting artists from Japan and China, confront the relationship between person and place from opposite sides of the spectrum. Inspired by their surroundings and drawing from their backgrounds, these artists depict human interplay within our global environment.

Yozo Takada “aims to consider our life and world from an objective point of view” through photographing artificial environments that alter earthly landscapes, but simultaneously support an abundance of biodiversity.

Huang Zhiling internalizes Tibet’s Buddhist society in China by exploring the belief of parisuddha. Stripped of detail and exactness, Huang seeks to outwardly reflect the inner purity essential to the Tibetan Buddhist way of life. Region, religion, spirituality and environment remain untranslatable. Similarly, his characters are uncorrupted, free to live a life of introspection in an unflawed world.

There will be a reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. March 5.