'Collecting Changs'

Event Description:
An herbarium is a careful paradox: plants, gathered at a moment of becoming, are pressed, named, and archived—to hold on to vitality, to render a living world still. In Collecting Changes: A Permanent Record, artist Diane Reeves turns to this practice as a way of recognizing life not as a singular arc, but as an accumulation of changes held patiently together. Echoing the way experience enters our frame—sometimes gently, sometimes aloud, always leaving traces that cannot be undone—each painting functions like a specimen: a record of growth, compromise, and adjustment. What is preserved is still life: the evidence of transformation.

The exhibition invites a fresh reading of permanence—not as stasis, but as willingness. To live is to collect change: to gather moments of adaptation and loss, resilience and recalibration, and to allow them to coexist without hierarchy. Seen this way, a life becomes an archive not of what remained the same, but of everything that was brave enough to shift.

About the Artist:
Diane Reeves sketches, paints, arranges, and sculpts to resist isolation and to embrace kinship through place, memory, and form. Architecture plays a central role in her work, shaping how she interprets spaces and the relationships they hold. Her pieces are abstract reflections of hidden structures, unspoken histories, and the quiet beauty of transformation—because it is often the most unremarkable fragments of life that hold the most meaning. Ordinary objects and common places become souvenirs of a life worth keeping. Reeves is drawn to the overlooked details of daily life and the built environment as both boundary and bridge. At its core, her practice is about belonging; her sense of family extends beyond blood ties to friendships, spaces, and the imprints of the everyday. In each painting, she invites viewers to see themselves within those layers and to recognize their own place in the architecture of connection.

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