FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Atlanta – March 2026

This spring, Hambidge Hive features If These Shadows Could Talk by Pam Korman at Uptown Atlanta, 15th floor, 575 Morosgo Dr NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30324. The exhibition is open March 19 - June 27, 2026 with an artist reception on Thursday, March 19, 6 - 9 PM.

If These Shadows Could Talk combines an installation of textiles and a first-person video to highlight rituals, inheritance, and identity – magnifying everyday repetitive behaviors to reveal how formative impressions are left on the following generations through repeated exposure. 

To crochet a doily is to perform a ritual rhythm – stitch after stitch, loop after loop – patterns emerge not only from thread and crochet hooks, but from the muscle memory of women who learned by watching others and then themselves passed down the act. Doilies reimagines the family gallery wall through dozens of unique hand-crocheted doilies installed on long pins. Stage lights shine brightly to reveal the doily patterns and cast layered shadows across the wall behind them. The doilies and their shadows amass and multiply into a ghostly field of patterns. The delicate, crafted ornament transforms into a significant presence echoing and repeating like the makers, their hands and the echoes of those who came before and will come after.

In Peas, a hand with red nail polish moves frozen peas one by one from a pile on the left into a clear bowl on the right. Unfolding against a stark white background, the simple act accumulates resonance. The empty bowl gains a presence as it fills, taking on an identity it did not hold at the start. The growing hole in the pile contrasts with the fullness in the bowl, marking both absence and continuation. Thirty minutes of the same action, performed with little variation, makes the mundane deliberate; the hand’s steady rhythm formalizes what could otherwise be dismissed. Peas reveals how the smallest, most familiar acts can gather significance across time, passing enduring traits through a matrilineage, each emptying itself to fill up the next.