Closed December 22 - January 5 

Dave Sobotka turned 60 in 2022, the same year his first grandchild was born. As he is aging, he is reflecting on both his own mortality and the mortality of everything in the world. We all leave a record of our lives, and in this technological age, more and more of us have the ability to leave those records in a way that our forefathers could not have ever envisioned. Ironically, with all of the data we now can leave behind, that data will get buried in an exponentially increasing sea of future information.

It is sobering to realize that there will be no future remembrance of the vast majority of individuals who have walked this earth (117,000,000,000 and counting). One hundred years from now, who will recall us or even think about our existence, even for a brief moment?

Using scanned images as well as cellphone photography, Dave Sobotka creates digital images that speak about the mortality of all life, but also the hope found in the cyclical nature of time. 

Fine Line will hold an in-person reception on Thursday, December 19, from 6-8 pm to officially open the show. As with all gallery receptions at Fine Line, it is free and open to everyone. Light refreshments will be served during the evening.

Fine Line Creative Arts Center

37W570 Bolcum Rd

St. Charles IL  

Gallery Hours: 10 am - 5 pm Monday - Saturday 

The gallery will be closed from December 22 until January 5.

Image: replication by Dave Sobotka