OBSESSIVE is the word that comes most often to mind while viewing "Discarded" at the Rockland Center for the Arts here. This is a varied exhibition featuring many big names in the recycling game as well as several not so well known. What stands out among all of them is how driven they are to coax poetry out of the unlovable.
On the lawn outside the center are two works by an artist who goes by the single name Kalmia. The sculptures have a ragtag look, being principally made of braided fabric. But they also have a seemingly ritualistic aspect.
Apples, which look as if they belong in this setting but appear nowhere else on the lawn, are heaped in the immediate vicinity of these pieces, and the enlisting of discarded organic nature is bracing.
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