Gallery ‘Iolani at Windward Community College presents Listening for a Heartbeat: Works by UHM drawing and painting faculty member Emily McIlroy. This retrospective installation brings together a collection of the artist’s drawings and paintings created between 2008 and 2021, presenting a thirteen-year arc of inquiry and transformation. An opening reception will be held on February 3rd, 2023 from 4-7pm, and the exhibition will be on view through March 3rd, 2023. For more information, please visit https://gallery.windward.hawaii.edu/listening-for-a-heartbeat/.
And when all went quiet and we could no longer make out the sound of these murmurings, I leaned back just a little into the spine that curved against my spine, and I said to the heart outside myself, “Where are you?” And the heart outside myself said, “I’m right here. Where are you?” And I said, “I’m right here, too.”
And that’s how I knew I was alive and of the world. That I was nothing less and nothing more than everything that had already been, and everything that would ever be. Who I was was happening, and this happening could never be undone.
–Emily McIlroy (2021)