What was that noise?

Untitled (ghost) (inkjet print), by Mandy Lamb, in the show “By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth,’’ at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, through Nov. 2.

—Image courtesy of the artist

The museum says:

{We} “invited artists Mandy Lamb, Linda Nguyen Lopez, Elaine K. Ng, and Claire Pentecost to participate in a residency on Allen and Benner Islands, where they encountered lingering traces of Wyeth that informed new works. The four share resonant approaches to place, materials, ecology, and the emotional lives of objects. Their works highlight a range of stories embedded in the islands: photographic series of ghostly vignettes (Lamb); large-scale ceramic sculptures inspired by Wyeth’s shard collections (Lopez); gathered natural dyes (Ng); and embroidered renditions of island soil samples on a monumental textile, referencing Wyeth’s fiber arts practice (Pentecost).’’