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Ben Shropshire Gallery Opening
Last April CL talked to local artist Shropshire, who turns dreams and magic into art. We also talked about eating bugs. Tonight he unveils a gallery show featuring his distinctive runes.
"My gaze is drawn to Ben Shropshire sitting behind a table filled with colorful squares of paper. Some of his artwork looks like letters — the big ones inscribed with filigree and scrollwork that I've seen in pictures of illuminated medieval manuscripts. Others look organic and alien at the same time.
It turns out that they're runes — Elder Futhark runes, Shropshire tells me. Though the designs are Shropshire's, the runes are Scandinavian. They are the oldest letters from northern Europe, dating from 150 to 800 AD. They were once used in a runic alphabet for language, and have since been used as art and decoration.
They are also magic.
"I like to lay the runes out on a table and see which ones people are drawn to," Shropshire says. "People like runes for all sorts of reasons. But I'm not tricking them into liking the one that is meant for them. The runes do that on their own."
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