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	Podcast:		Desert Oracle Radio
	Episode:		Compound YV gallery hosts kite-themed exhibition and free kite-making workshop this Saturday (9/27)
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:00:00
	Publish Date:		2025-09-27 16:39:15
	Description:		This evening, Compound YV gallery will be hosting their first exhibition of their 2025-26 season entitled “Waiting for the Wind,” featuring kite-themed work by Miguel Arzabe, Kristen Jean Wheatley, Katie Giritlian, and Beck Haberstroh. Borrowing its title from Gertrude Stein’s quote, “waiting for the wind to fly a kite,” this show represents the human experience of waiting. In waiting, we suspend expectations between current and future moments. Like a kite in midair, these moments can be fleeting, freeing, and ever-shifting, as determined by the power of nature. These hanging moments allow us to build new perspectives of our physical horizons, natural connections, and possibilities. “The show is coming about at a time where there’s like so much uncertainty. But kites I feel are such a beautiful metaphor for hope. We we can’t fly a kite without the wind, and so in essence we’re always waiting for the wind to be able to fly, and it’s something that has so much freedom in its movement, although it’s dictated by the indeterminate path the wind gives it. Yet, it’s also very much tethered to the ground so there’s this very like aerial quality to it but it’s also very grounded at the same time,” says Compound YV Operations Director Caroline Partamian Partamian said the show was originally inspired by the video art of Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe, who films his playful interactions of a circular kite with the unforeseen forces of the wind. Since weaving can be involved in kite-making, for this exhibition he has created Nochero, a weaving assembled from scraps collected over time from his painting process. Kristen Jean Wheatley explores the ways we move and the way the world moves around us. By carefully observing both natural and man-made systems, she learns, follows, tracks, and responds through artistic production. She creates objects that make the invisible visible, and through that process activates and investigates each cycle. Beck Haberstroh and Katie Giritlian create a participatory aerial performance through kite flying and prompt sharing. They invite two people to unspool a string and by balancing tension and tangle together, create a line in the sky floating with the wind: the simplest kite. Preceding the opening, Partamian urges the public to attend their free kite-building workshop from 4:00-7:00 p.m. where participants will be flying their newly built kites during sunset as the gallery opens. Opening reception of “Waiting for the Wind” is from 6:00-10:00 p.m. this Saturday. The event is free, all ages welcome. Compound YV is located in Old Town Yucca Valley next to Snakebite Roadhouse. Learn more about Compound YV and the show at their website. The post Compound YV gallery hosts kite-themed exhibition and free kite-making workshop this Saturday (9/27) appeared first on Z107.7 FM Joshua Tree.
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