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Enjoy snacks & drinks while you make & see art with community members and local artists at the opening reception for the latest exhibition at Crossings Gallery!

The Sun, My Scars a Poppyseed, an interactive mixed media installation the reflects on the metaphor of body as land by Allston artist Eden Attar. After experiencing sexual assault, Attar happened on a daily practice of creating self portraits while looking at herself in the mirror—a process which helped restore her sense of her own body and agency. In this exhibition, Attar combines these self portraits with an invitation for visitors to tend trays of sprouting seeds in the Crossings Gallery. Inspired by ecological and anarchist gardening philosophies, Attar finds delight amidst the hardships of environmental destruction, rape culture, and the inevitable pains of injury and accident.

Eden Attar is a participant in the Ed Portal’s 2024 Artist Pipeline Program and a welding instructor at Artisans Asylum, a state-of-the-art community maker’s space in Allston-Brighton.