""I was very into film and particularly TV at that point," he recalls, "and this was the first made-for-TV movie that public television had ever done. When I saw her on set with all these people deferring to her and making a movie out of one of her books, the pennies began to drop for me. I was like, 'Oh. My mother's important.'""
""It took me a couple of years to make the connection between wanting to do something to celebrate my mother [who died in 2018] in Portland with Blake's incredibly generous offer," Downes-Le Guin says, "and to connect my interest in curation with my interest in my mother. Once I figured that out, I realized this would really be a lot of fun.""
Theo Downes-Le Guin perceived his mother's prominence early, with Hugo and Nebula wins for The Left Hand of Darkness at age four and for The Dispossessed at eleven. A Dallas visit to the set of The Lathe of Heaven made that prominence concrete when he saw people deferring to her on a landmark public-television production. After founding Upfor Gallery and its 2020 closure, he accepted Blake Shell's invitation to use Oregon Contemporary's 5,000-square-foot space to mount a curatorial project. A Larger Reality opened October 31 and runs through February 8, 2026, presenting facets of Ursula K. Le Guin's literary and cultural influence; she witnessed Mount St. Helens' 1980 eruption and died in 2018.
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