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Fine Line opens exhibit reflecting on life’s impermanence

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The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles will host a reception on Thursday, Dec. 19, to open Dave Sobotka’s show ‘(r)evolutions’ in the Kavanagh Gallery.

The reception will be 6 to 8 p.m. at the center, 37W570 Bolcum Road. As with all gallery receptions at Fine Line, it is free and open to everyone. Light refreshments will be served during the evening. The exhibit runs until Feb. 7.

Dave Sobotka turned 60 in 2022, the same year his first grandchild was born. As he is aging, he is reflecting on both his own mortality and the mortality of everything in the world.

Everyone leaves a record of their lives, and in this technological age, more and more have the ability to leave those records in a way that our forefathers could not have ever envisioned. Ironically, with all of the data we now can leave behind, that data will get buried in an exponentially increasing sea of future information.

It is sobering to realize that there will be no future remembrance of the vast majority of individuals who have walked this earth (117,000,000,000 and counting). One hundred years from now, who will recall us or even think about our existence, even for a brief moment?

Using scanned images as well as cellphone photography, Sobotka creates digital images that speak about the mortality of all life, but also the hope found in the cyclical nature of time.

The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. It will be closed Dec. 22 until Jan. 5 for Fine Line Creative Arts Center winter break. Admission is free.

Learn more at fineline.org.