Natural Mystery Museum works by pip craighead	Jan 10 - Feb 11, 2009 Opening Reception Sat, January 10th, 8-12pm

Pip Craighead grew up near the mountains in Southern California.  This show is an earnest attempt at the aesthetic distillation of starlight hikes, quiet moments, Caspar David Friedrich, secret places, children's stories, whispered poems, hugs, lo-fi folk music, owls, warped cassette tapes, warm beds, mountaintop observatories, deep forests, lens flares, nautiloids, utopian architecture, Olivier Messiaen's theories on birdsong as "the lost face of music," the sound of your own breathing, 1970s disillusioned science fiction, emotional nakedness, geodesic domes, ruins, the passage of time, crickets, the Pacific Northwest, the sea, blood, tears, spiral galaxies and love of God.