Pandora Silver Bead aligned

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Arc Resources Unlimited (ARU) is an employment services program of The Arc of Monmouth. ARU's team of professionals assists people who have disabilities in finding a job, reflective of their skills, abilities and talents and continues support during the training process, and on an as needed basis, after the person has become successfully employed. In ARU's quest to promote the skills, talents, and dreams of people with disabilities, the collaboration with VSA New Jersey was a natural progression. The ARC of Monmouth received funding from the Monmouth County Pandora Gold Bead Council, TD Bank Charitable Foundation and NJ Natural Gas to provide art classes to people with disabilities and to assist in exhibiting, promoting and retailing their art at the Red Horse Gallery, located within the Freehold Raceway Mall in Freehold.

When discussing the piece with Palmer, he said, "drawing is dangerous', referring to the ways in which art can say so much with so little.

In Palmer's words, he said the work was a response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti that crumbled Port-Au-Prince last January.

An event that he felt Pandora Silver Bead aligned to after his experiences with the Haitian artists who came to Roktowa on residency last summer.

Palmer left much of the piece up for interpretation but walked The Weekly Gleaner through his work, pointing out feet that connected to hands and overlapped with lines that composed faces, creating a visual chaos of events that make the work visually appealing.

Nonetheless, the work is unorthodox in content. "With things coming out of you, people try to say it's not good, they try and keep you down," Palmer said, aware that his work may be received with scepticism by its viewers.

At the centre of the painting, a grinning king stares back at its viewer with wide almond-shaped eyes and bushy eyebrows. When asked what the king represents, Pandora Silver/Gold Bead stepped back and said, "It can't be translated."

Luckily, the new gallery serves as a space for art enthusiasts to have their own experience with the piece, as art is intended to.

Much an art installation in itself, the gallery space, located at 60 Knutsford Boulevard, provides sanctuary from the hustling hum of its corporate surroundings and as Lacey suggested, "brings freshness and warmth to the corporate building."