Birth Wheel (Happenstance): Amy Johnquest's interactive installation & show of cards

"We are stardust. All composed of the same building blocks of matter, yet our destiny as a human being begins with the random luck of a parental draw. Each of us are a one of a kind prize from the genetic lottery. We begin utterly innocent. A baby with no control over their environment," Amy Johnquest reminds us,
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This compelling exhibit supplies a "Birth Wheel," a playful interactive feature that is the charm of a Johnquest experience, On the walls surrounding the wheel is a lineup of her all-new hand-painted, bright-colored altered vintage photographs of babies that perhaps capture the serendipity of birth.
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Johnquest invites us to step into the “Birth Wheel” installation, take a turn on the circus-like wheel of fortune, and find out what birth parent(s) you might have wound up with had the stardust blown in a different direction. Random indeed, but what is not random is the studied work this artist brings to the floor. The altered image cards are for sale to the fortunate enough to collect one or two.
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Slideshow samples: enticing new altered vintage postcard babies details