Nick HolmesThere is a green nothing
March 28 - April 11, 2025
︎︎︎ parallel solo exhibition
Have you guess’d you yourself would not continue?
Have you dreaded these earth-beetles?
Have you fear’d the future would be nothing to you?
Is to-day nothing? is the beginningless past nothing?
If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
To think that the sun rose in the east—that men and women were flexible,
real, alive—that every thing was alive,
To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our past,
To think that we are now here and bear our part.
Speaking Conduit, 2024Scraps and important objects
8 × 10 × 84 in | 20 × 25 × 213.36 cm
Standards Window, 2024Wood, tissue paper, acrylic paint, block printing ink, scraps
24 × 3.5 × 1 ¾ in | 61 × 8.5 × 4.5 cm
Protractor Window, 2025
Brass plate, tissue paper, acrylic paint, block printing ink, scraps
5.3 × 2 ¾ in | 13 × 6.5 cm
Nick Holmes (b. 2002, Bermuda) lives and works in Chicago, IL. He is currently pursuing his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
“The totality of existence is made of constant movement. The small, particulate movement of entropy and the movement of a soul are two mirrored pieces of it, the endless campaign. With honest patterning and intention, a pre-articulate object can become a conduit through which we can understand this campaign. The sublime exists in the space created when you resign yourself to this movement, the infinite space under settling dust.”