Tyler Hall Art Gallery is hosting another exhibit for the semester called “All That Remains,” featuring two SUNY Oswego professors as the artists.

Peter Cardone, a visiting assistant professor for photography, along with Christopher McEvoy, who teaches painting, showcase artwork that displays themes of slippage, memories and the push and pull of reality.

“Water is important to me…My earlier work, a lot of interiors, so I’d photograph interiors for signs and history of use. So it wouldn’t be people, but there’d be like the things they left behind…. And when I saw the lighthouse, those two things kind of came together,” Cardone said.

The lighthouse that sits in Lake Ontario was the inspiration for Cardone’s side of the gallery. He had a history of photographing other water landscapes like Lake Michigan, Cayuga Lake and the Pacific Ocean.

“I looked at that lighthouse as this kind of anchor, and so it’s such a strong structure to stand up to the weather. So it’s steel, it’s concrete, it’s wood. It’s just really beefy,” Cardone said. “And to look at that in visual contrast to the water that’s always changing and always moving. And then also this idea that going to the lighthouse…You see [it] from so many different places…I was like how many different ways can I see from the lighthouse…and that’s where the project started.”

Almost every photo displayed in the Tyler Hall Art Gallery shows a glimpse of water as seen from the lighthouse. There are only one or two that do not show any water at all. Cardone wanted the water to be like an anchor for the lighthouse.

“I feel grounded in the presence of being in the lighthouse, but the moving water kind of connects me to these other places that I’ve been, like Lake Michigan [and] Cayuga Lake,” Cardone said. “So there’s that kind of push and pull. I think that’s common when you’re around water, is like you feel like you’re in a space, but then the water kind of suggests other times and other possibilities and it’s always shifting. It’s always changing.”

The title of the art gallery, “All That Remains,” was inspired by a piece of artwork created by McEvoy, the other artist in the gallery. His piece is called “This is what remains.”

McEvoy’s artwork differs from Cardone’s in that they are abstract paintings that showcase the gap between perception and imagination. Viewers can have a sense of falling apart and coming back together simultaneously.

“These aren’t paintings about confusion but consciousness. In fractured moments and invented landscapes, I witness my own daily negotiations with meaning—the constant work of assembling coherence from fragments,” McEvoy said.

Cardone has a slightly different interpretation of the meaning behind “All That Remains.”

“The lighthouse is, in a sense, like antiquated, if you will, meaning like it’s not really necessary anymore,” Cardone said. “And yet it’s like what remains from a time and a place in the early 20th century, when it was [of] vital importance. I guess maybe that would be like my interpretation of the all that remains.”

“All That Remains” will be in Tyler Hall Art Gallery until Nov. 14.