In a time when we spent so much time alone or isolating, you really began to understand what it meant to have committed friendships. The last two years have taught us what is important in a kinship with others, and this is apparent in Tacit Turnabout, Casey Weldon's new solo show at Thinkspace Projects. As the gallery notes, "The collection is particularly special as it represents a return to creation and work for Weldon, who has recently been through a long stagnant period due to recent brain surgery. With Tacit Turnabout, he aims to make something beautiful and fun out of relatively dark origins. While he is not aiming to beautify the struggles, he sheds light on a different perspective, emphasizing optimism and hope."
"Tacit Turnabout is a menagerie of ideas I've been collecting over the last couple of years that are inspired by some of the predicaments my friends have been living through, some observations made about what little of the environment I've gotten a chance to get out and see, and some of my own introspective self-evaluation," Weldon said of the new work. "After a long, stagnant period of work and creativity (Thanks, brain surgery!), the work is an attempt to make something pretty and fun out of some relatively dark origins, not to try and beautify these struggles, but to record them with a degree of optimism, and dare I say it, hope."
