“Death, Decay, Redefined” spreads spores at Smith Gallery

By Sophie Delaney delaneys@grinnell.edu The words death and decay can evoke many different images, from mourning to urban blight, but to Zainab Thompson `22, they mean something simultaneously simple and infinitely complex: the surreal nature of the circle of life. Thompson’s recent show in Smith Gallery, “Death, Decay, Redefined,” explored these terms in detail with interactive elements and additions throughout the show’s two- week run. Thompson credited an interest in “reading and writing horror surrealism” for inspiring many of her intricate, […]