Evidence of absence

“Evidence of Absence”(woodcut Japanese technique), by Kevin Frances, in the group show “Home Sweet, Somewhere,’’ at Phillips Exeter Academy’s Lamont Gallery, Exeter, N.H., through Nov. 21.

The gallery explains:

“Kevin Frances’s story {is} about the lives of the people who live in them; the human presence is evident, but the people are absent. In ‘Home Sweet, Somewhere,’ Frances expands his ‘Superposition’  body of work, which is set in the home of a fictional couple. The artist begins by creating a scaled model of an imagined home. He then takes photographs of the hand-built miniature, which then become the inspiration for his woodblock prints. While the artist says the series, ‘is first and foremost about a relationship,’ the process blurs our understanding of reality, perception, and what is really there.