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Photos: Keren Lowell solo exhibit, "Groundwork"

Inevitable fragility is, in a way, what "Groundwork," a solo exhibit by Anchorage artist Keren Lowell, is all about.

"These worn-out, abraded, unwanted things are beautiful to me," she writes in the exhibit catalog. "They reveal an accumulation of use, of work, of neglect and time. They speak to me about my own vulnerability, my own aging, the slow and eventual breaking down of my physical body.

"I know this work is not permanent," she said. "No art is. Not even marble statues. People say, 'It's so beautiful! You should cast it in bronze.'

"I'm like, 'Sorry.'"

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