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From Within: Dark Monks plaster " and "Lady Sings theArtist: Alyssa Taylor WendtFrom Within: Dark Monks, 2022 Ceramic, photograph, brass peephole Wendt's From Within ceramic series, is based on Egyptian canopic jars and Stanhope viewers. Inspired by the isolation of the recent pandemic, each of the fourteen jars all contain a group portrait of the other 13 jars, the idea being that we carry those whom we are connected to inside of us. Like Walt Whitmans I contain multitudes, this project incorporates