ON THE COVER
THE LIGHTNING WE SHARE
BY SETH PITT
“I’ve come to believe that all this work you see here, and all the work ,ZLOOHYHUPDNHLVDELJFROODERUDWLYHH̆ RUW:HOHDUQZKDWZHYDOXH by those who touch our lives by wandering around in their own sim- ple gorgeous ways and we create what we do by looking into what we value. This stands to reason that everything I do is an echo of things I’ve learned from people, namely those who have shown me love, kindness or care. This is still happening. It’s happening right now. Thank you.”
- Seth.
2ULJLQDOO\IURP0LFKLJDQ6HWKFXUUHQWO\ZRUNVRXWRI7KRPDV:9 which is his favorite town he’s ever been to. It’s a tiny town, which is located within the United States, which was created by some con- fused humans drawing imaginary lines across a landmass called North America on a planet called Earth, which is a rock in a universe that no-one really understands. There, aside from making art, he deeply enjoys writing, looking at FORXGV JD]LQJ LQWR WKH ZRRGV PDUYHOLQJ DW WKH LQQDWH EULOOLDQFH RI FRPPRQWKLQJVDQGKDYLQJVPDOOSDUDGHVZLWKWKH¿QHSHRSOHKH¶V been lucky enough to come to know and love. A lot of the work he makes is, at the heart of it, about being entirely boggled by the great universe that no-one really understands. He’s not ERJJOHGLQDSDUDO\]LQJZD\EXWUDWKHULQDOHW¶VMXVWNHHSSXVKLQJ buttons-and-see-what-happens sort of way. He keeps pushing a lot of buttons and it keeps getting more and more interesting. He is self taught, didn’t go to art school, and couldn’t draw a shoe very well when he was young. In fact, he spent the majority of his youth believing that he was not an artist at all. While he still cannot draw a shoe very well, he is happy to have eventually learned that the ability to do so has no consequence on whether or not one should be making art. His work itself focuses on hope, resilience, and the positive creative forces of the human condition. It is concerned with uncovering the divinity within the mundane and helping us to unearth our own small stories of grandeur and magic, regardless of how ordinary, at times, we may seem. This causes mostly all he makes to huddle around that ZKLFKKXPDQLW\¿QGVFDPDUDGHULHLQ He considers daydreaming essential, wonder imperative, and an un- yielding reverence for life boundlessly indispensable. Seth has a solo gallery called Creature , in Thomas, WV, as well as co-curating and co-owning Invisible (a collaborative art space) and Santangelo (a contemporary ceramics gallery). He shows work around the country with a myriad of independent shops and galleries. His website is an extensive virtual gallery representing most of WKHZRUNKHKDVEHHQIRUWXQDWHHQRXJKWRPDNH<RXFDQ¿QGKLPDW www.theartofseth.com. His instagram is @theartofseth where you can see a regular smat- tering of new work.
PATHWAYS—Winter 25-26—61
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