When Little Pieces of Very Big Things Break Off and Fall
(2005)The Museum of Everyday Life once again interweaves the steamy details of personal life in small-town Vermont with the events of a larger, perilous world. Drawing on actual quotes by real scientists, coal company spokesman and dead philosophers, this show pieces together together scenes of mountain-top removal coal mining, studies of arctic shelf melting, and the mudane details of a Vermont librarian’s life. When Little Pieces of Very Big Things Break Off and Fall is comic and serious investigation of how we can best lead a meaningful life in the midst of the 21st century, in the face of unprecedented environmental disaster.