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Kelley Bell, Garden of Earthly Delights

W River Parkway

Image Still, Garden of Earthly Delights. Image courtesy the artist.

Image Still, Garden of Earthly Delights. Image courtesy the artist.

Image Still, Garden of Earthly Delights. Image courtesy the artist.

Garden of Earthly Delights

Garden of Earthly Delights explores the relationship between public and private space and each person’s subjective view of his or her own environment. In this projection series, fantastic creatures from Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych of the same name haunt the nocturnal streetscape. The characters from Bosch’s famous painting depicting creation, an earthly paradise, and hell are revealed by a meandering spotlight that captures these creatures in midflight, slowly tracking them across the landscape—and then they vanish. They are ephemeral, like the sudden revelation of an unnoticed detail in a cityscape that comes to define the city. In that short glimpse we see that heaven, hell, and paradise are with us here and now, shaped by our own sense of place.