Exhibit: Shelf Life at Blue Hill Public Library

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Public Library is hosting an exhibit of figures made from found objects and household supplies, and arranged into vignettes and scenes, by Blue Hill artist Ken Weeks. The exhibit is in the Children’s Larchwood exhibit case through the end of February.

Early on in his adult life Ken studied medicine but gave it up for acting, comedy and theater design. He says he considers himself a “metaphysical nomad,” and is “very frugal,” which leads him to use found objects in his artwork. He likes to incorporate comedy in his vignettes and scenes.

Ken’s figures are often delicately balanced on paper clip feet, legs made from tubes of paper or Q-tips, bodies made of matchbooks or candy bar wrappers, hair of twisty ties, and heads of aluminum foil, just to name a few of the components that make up Ken’s figures. Some of the figures are playing instruments, one is an astronaut; one is wearing a surprisingly convincing white dress of crumpled paper towel.

The exhibit will be available for viewing during regular Library hours. For more information call Pat at 374-5515.