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The gallery is open Saturdays + Sundays 12 - 6 PM and by appointment.

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Essex Flowers' front entrance and front gallery are wheelchair accessible. Our back gallery is accessible through a side entrance (please speak with the gallery sitter upon arrival). Our bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.


The Second Room 

March 14 - April 13, 2025 
Opening Reception: Fri., Mar. 14, 6-8pm


How we use a room defines it—any room with a bed becomes a bedroom; all inhabited rooms are, in a sense, living rooms. An empty room might be seen as a blank slate, but even in the emptiest room one finds dust, and dust is not neutral.

The placement of a mirror changes a room—it creates a strange, sometimes sinister window. For Borges, mirrors “extenuate this vain and dubious world within the web of their own vertigo,” imbuing them with a capacity to arrest and terrify.

A gallery is a room for art, and art is, among other things, a mirror.

Strange, that there are dreams, that there are mirrors.
Strange that the ordinary, worn-out ways
of every day encompass the imagined
and endless universe woven by reflections.