Craven and Chavez's project, Dry Spell, came to be as the result of conversations about the maintenance and grooming of residential landscapes in order to control the process of de- and re-generation, according to a press release. The installation "serves as a constructed garden cultivated to elevate and monumentalize the beauty of decay."
Those conversations were far from the first between the couple, who are among a group of artists who founded Black Hunger Gallery in Boise's North End. They collaborated on a project called Canoeing in January, which was displayed at Bricolage and graced the cover of the Jan. 3 edition of Boise Weekly. Craven's work is also being exhibited as part of Wither and Bloom, a collaborative show with fellow Black Hunger-er Erin Cunningham at Visual Arts Collective through Tuesday, July 31.