becoming I, I say You (for Martin Buber)

Charles Matson Lume                                                             

Charles Matson Lume is a visual artist who believes we need beauty every day. This truth was made more real in the pandemic. Beauty emits the immortal scent and sensual manifestation of justice, which is often slow to become present amongst us. When beauty visits, we sense justice might be near.

His art traces the contours of "art is a verb, not a noun" and "the loveliest sounds arise out the deepest silences". He sees light as quicksilver. It’s slippery, ephemeral, and mostly unmanageable. His ephemeral light installations reveal instances when light and materials radiate in a kind of hallucinatory pas du deux.