Compact Contemporary

By Helen Hesketh 2021

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A very small art gallery curated by Helen Dryden Instagram @compactcontemporary

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Infinitely windy elbows

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Empathic Gardener

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Official Commemorative Presidential Portrait with the first guys to piss on this dirt

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