05/13/2026
Stop by the Tabula Rasa Gallery before May 23 to experience Time Means Nothing To A Stone, a solo exhibition by Bachelor of Fine Arts student Shawn Sweeney. The exhibit honors the memory of Shawn’s father. In his artist statement he writes:
This work is made at a pace that resists urgency, spectacle, and demand.
It moves slowly, accumulating pressure rather than seeking visibility.
Like stone, it carries memory without narration and weight without explanation.
I have stripped away voices that do not honor my tempo, my labor, or my psyche.
What remains is held by those who held me — the few, the constant, the unseen.
This work is made for them and in their honor.
It does not ask to be understood immediately or even fully.
It asks only to be encountered.
Time, here, is not a measure of progress or delay.
It is an element the work passes through without submission.
Change occurs through endurance.
Meaning gathers through staying.
Join Shawn for an artist reception May 14, 6-9pm Wolfson 5th floor, College of DAAP.
