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Currents4: Amy Stacey Curtis Elena Sarni Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maines Through April 13 Leaving a pristinely white, snow-caked campus behind, the burst of color you see when you enter the Colby College Museum of Art is refreshing. Through the glass doors, what looks like a rectangular swimming pool is filled with floating, colored lily pads, lit softly by the sun filtering through the snow-topped skylight. Artist Amy Stacey Curtis was compelled to make use of the elongated lines of the Davis Gallery in her design of a rectangular grid, filled with painted circles inspired by nine colors found on the Colby campus. “currents4” is the fourth annual exhibition hosted by the museum and originated by Director and Chief Curator Sharon Corwin to promote emerging Maine artists and expose the public to boundary pushing art. Curtis is a Maine-based interactive installation artist well known throughout the state for her work at industrial sites. In the artist’s own words, her work represents how she “came to see the balance or sum of chaos, order and repetition as a sort of equation for everything, an archetype for the interconnectedness of all.” Pausing to read the instructions on the wall, I immediately wished that I hadn’t researched the exhibit and read that Amy’s original installation was based on a random pattern of 10,080 colored circles generated by a computerized “shuffled algorithm.” Algorithm! Math! I try to squash my panic and return to the instructions. “Please do not step on circles or tape. Carefully remove circles from floor. Place circles into receptacles sorting them by color. When circles are completely sorted use color keys provided to reassemble circles on floor. If unsure whether circles are being sorted or reassembled, choose. Without your participation, my work is incomplete.” Read the entire article in our magazine pages...