An exhibit at the Downtown Art Center in Honolulu, “Dancing on the Edge of the Witches’ Cauldron” lives up to its name. It even pushed the boundaries of the curator Tom Klobe, an artist who thought about this exhibit for 30 years, when selecting artists for the exhibit.
“They were taking chances,” Klobe said. “They were literally walking on the edge of the witches’ cauldron. Fire licking up on one side and the boiling stew on the other side, and if they took a misstep, either way was not to their advantage at all.”
The exhibit features 45 pieces by five artists who have taken their work to another level. One artist has sculpted a human-size figure of shredded printmaking paper. Another sculpted a person with a 3-foot stack of National Geographic Magazines…