Charlotte Call’s inaugural exhibition begins with a question: how can art help us find meaning? Fire and Life offers a belief that significant objects can lead us to both spiritual and intellectual insight, moving toward artworks as vessels of presence, transmission, and care. The title is drawn from a line by Anaïs Nin: “I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire.” Nin was a close friend of Beatrice Wood and spoke about her luster works with admiration: “Beatrice Wood combines her colors like a painter, makes them vibrate like a musician… Water poured from one of her jars will taste like wine.”
