January 6 – March 9, 2024

Winter’s Long Embrace

Winter is glorious in the Hudson Valley—like a classic Holiday movie—to visual seductions of glowing white fields of snow and the olfactory pleasures of smoke of a hundred nearby fireplaces. Yet in the north, winter lingers too damn long. Like a bad relationship or even a good one, the embraces that are marvelous at first and remain so for a finite period can become suffocating. We look out at a three PM darkening sky and grumble, "shit, it's still winter here."

The back and forth sense of simultaneous desires to “make this end” or “make this linger” rhymes with our erotic, romantic, and familial vibes. The social norm of making sure to get in a relationship during cuffing season to have someone to bake for feels oppressive. The weather intertwines with all those triggers to encourage the holding of other beings’ bodies tightly—and Winter’s Long Embrace intends to make the most of those contradictory interwoven feelings.