by Christine Temin

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"...Beth Galston was drawn to the museum's secluded little rock-bordered pond, where she has placed a flotilla of oak leaves, painted in iridescent colors, from toothpaste turquoise to shocking pink--the colors of a Caribbean coral reef rather than a New England pond. They're a playful reminder not only of where we are, but when. At odds with the muted tones of the South Shore in late summer, they point the way to autumn, when our leaves are brilliantly colored without the aid of art or artifice..."