For the inaugural exhibition of International Waters, Nate Heiges presents a series of paintings and sculptures made using materials found predominantly on the anti-pastoral streets of Bushwick and the East Williamsburg Industrial Park. Say it with Flowers, a phrase taken from the wrapping paper of bodega bouquets, serves as a metaphor for both the ubiquity and the necessity of language as well as its all-too-common suppression and subversion. Heiges manipulates vernacular objects into a détourned bricolage, by turns funny and sad, of the surrounding landscape.
No flowers were harmed in the making of this exhibition.
![International Waters/Secret Dungeon secret entrance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9936e102801497d82be39b6e8f193cb4595f3e7aa98483cf3720692d3483482/SIWF_01.jpg)
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![Sweet Scabious and Say It with Flowers (triptych)](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84ff87f87eb86c40c2ed43bf3e280e8971d210853ae3184d94dfcbbc62b00619/SIWF_09.jpg)
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![Ghengis Khan, c-print](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d2d4414d1ee4a934883526d92569fe065b7109c36a315c6a4f0ec8319df4971/Ghengis-Khan.jpg)
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![Sorry You're Ill](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eb7fa28e07ab47f1aecbd9224c5754e88bbca28cb753418a56734d0c4f36373/Sorry-You-re-Ill.jpg)
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