It Won't All Wash Away - Opening Reception

It Won’t All Wash Away

By Brit Scott

It Won’t All Wash Away brings together a body of work that confronts the

idea of cleansing—what can be removed, and what remains no matter

how much time, pressure, or silence is applied. Through layered color,

graffiti marks, and symbolic imagery, the exhibition explores memory,

identity, faith, and history as forces that cannot be erased.

Across the works, there is a recurring tension between softness and

resistance—flowers blooming where destruction is expected, figures

holding stillness in chaotic environments, and symbols of protection

existing alongside warning and harm. Water, cleansing, and renewal are

implied, but never absolute. What these pieces suggest is that some

things—truth, experience, cultural memory—do not dissolve. They

settle deeper, reshape themselves, and re-emerge.

The exhibition moves between personal and collective narratives, asking

viewers to consider what persists beneath the surface. What do we carry

forward, whether we choose to or not? What remains after systems

attempt to overwrite or silence?

It Won’t All Wash Away is not about despair—it is about endurance. It is

about the parts of us, and our histories, that refuse disappearance.