Carole Silverstein’s exhibition this ache in your heart is holy contains a recurring motif of the cosmic web found in sacred geometry. The web is an extension of Silverstein’s theme of the garden and its metaphor for healing and renewal, as well as a theme of rupture and repair. This is the artist's response to the rise of darkness and despair from our world’s multiple crises, and to the dramatic shift in her life as a mother with a son departing for college and adulthood. These paintings and watercolors are born out of this disorienting time. The cosmic web pattern becomes about re-weaving and re-building a sense of wholeness—personally and globally. For Silverstein, this is significantly guided by the concept of the Buddhist and Hindu “Indra’s net” which envisions the universe as an infinite web, exquisitely interdependent—as well as to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, to repair a broken world.

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