ASHLEY PEDONE These distant castles illustrate wealth, opulence, and the isolation it can cause.	CHASE WINKLER This piece is an exploration of composition inspired by the strength and fragility of shale. Painting on stone allowed for looseness and freedom in mark making. The misshaped nature of the shale triggered new ways of exploring a “canvas” or plane.	KARA CASSIDY HALL Working from previous themes in my work, this piece pushed my boundaries through sheer scale. I limited my resources to wood, shale, metal, and moss.
RACHEL NOLTE This installation explores the properties and aesthetics of three materials found at Salem Art Works. The positioning and form of the piece address the balance and weight of the materials against that of the barn’s structure. It also speaks to concepts of interior/exterior and insider/outsider, which are as relevant and local to SAW as the materials themselves.	TJ SADOWSKI These pieces demonstrate the power compression has to hold things in place. Slate and shale are created through this concentration of energy, which is mirrored by the compression in the architecture of this space.	TYLER RHINEHART 'Learning to Balance' explores the relationship between shale and wood through the recycling of form and structure. Each material carries attributes of strength, but it is where they are fragile that pressures how they are balanced.
MIKE THRON '#9' records an action that has happened and forecasts an action that will happen, presenting it to the viewer only in a moment of stillness.	JAKE MILLER This work is an arrangement of small samples of rudimentary elements comprising the tenuous balance, which makes up the world around us. The minute sample of each of these elements is contrasted by the shape of each sphere they are contained in, juxtaposing the sense of planetary scale with molecular structure.	SHANNON SWENSON ink. print. break. repeat.
CHA TORI Growing up in a rocky desert nearly everyone I knew in my small town had their own rock collection, gathered while hiking, off-roading, camping, or even just digging in their back yard. As a child, each of these rocks was magical and precious, each a piece of an infinite whole of never ending combinations of color and shape. By revealing the striated composition of this piece of shale (excavated from the hill opposite this exhibition), I want to rediscover the magic contained in these rocks.