San Antonio-based artists Patrick Farris and Lané Pittard took photos of their natural surroundings and combined them with the sounds of creatures who dwell in them. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Mercury Project
“Dame Kind,” a multimedia exhibition by San Antonio-based artists Patrick Farris and Lané Pittard, seeks to break down the binary between nature and culture, the majestic and familiar, the divine and mundane.

Working in a darkroom, the pair developed photographs of their environs, combining them with the sounds of other creatures who make their homes there.

Farris takes inspiration from poet W.H. Auden who, in an introduction to a book on Protestant mystics, waxed poetic on the opportunity to engage in “communion” with not all mankind but all “Dame Kind” to attain a state of innocent joy upon realizing all living things are intrinsically beautiful.

Farris’ and Pittard’s immersive exhibition will be open four evenings — June 6, June 11, June 18 and June 25 — or by appointment.

Free by appointment or designated dates, 6-10 p.m. Friday, June 6-Wednesday, June 25, Mercury Project Contemporary Art Gallery, 538 Roosevelt Ave., (210) 478-9133, mercuryproject.net.

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This article appears in May 29 – Jun 11, 2025.