Join us for an informal walk through of the as Above so Below exhibition with artists Melinda Hurst Frye and Jessica Hays.
The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy's, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency, Boston.
© Melinda Hurst Frye, Ghost Pipes
© Jessica Hayes
Meet on Friday March 6th at Griffin @ Lafayette at 3.30pm to meet the artists and learn more about the work on the walls in Downtown Boston.
Melinda Hurst Frye's work embodies close observation and ecological awareness. Using a flatbed scanner to record the forest floor in extraordinary detail, she reveals the complex networks of fungi, plant matter, and soil that support life above ground. Her images challenge traditional notions of landscape by centering what is typically unseen, reminding us that the health of visible ecosystems depends on fragile, interconnected systems beneath our feet. By shifting attention to what lies underfoot, Frye asks us to reconsider scale, value, and our relationship to the natural world.
Jessica Hays approaches the landscape as both ecological reality and lived experience. Her photographs engage environments shaped by climate change, wildfire, and personal history, reflecting humanity's innate connection to the natural world and the emotional consequences of its disruption. Through alternative photographic processes and layered visual strategies, Hays considers how land holds memory and how environmental change reverberates through the body and the self.
Together, Frye and Hays move between the intimate and the expansive, the microscopic and the monumental. As Above, so Below invites viewers to consider how photographic images can reveal connection--between land and self, past and present--and encourage a deeper awareness of our place within the systems that sustain us.