Santa Claus rides into the Tysons Corner Center mall on a train on Nov. 22.

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Cory Okouchi, right, plays Owen Musser and Phillip Archey, left, plays Charlie Baker in the Northern Virginia Community College’s presentation of “The Foreigner."

Photo: Laura Moody

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Hooks are used to suspend the multiple layers of fabric used in Catherine Day's exhibit, The Fabric of Memory. The collection is being displayed at NVCC's Waddell Art Gallery, and is free to the public.

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The Fabric of Memory includes both color and black and white prints on multiple layers of natural fabrics.

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A four-piece series of layered fabric artworks included in The Fabric of Memory, an exhibit of Catherine Day's work at NVCC's Waddell Art Gallery.

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Three of the artworks included in Catherine Day's exhibit, The Fabric of Memory.

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Catherine Day's exhibit, The Fabric of Memory, is on display at the Waddell Art Gallery at NVCC until Feb. 8.

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Art enthusiasts converse with artist Catherine Day at NVCC's Waddell Art Gallery.

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Artist Catherine Day says she is fascinated by memories. "I have been photographing the objects left on graves for some time," she says. "They seem a still life of grief, a touchable manifestation of loss. In choosing to print these images on transparent layers of fabric, I am using qualities in the process that mirror how memory works. Many layers create a deep rich detailed image. The fewer the layers, the less defined the image is. Memory works in the same way. Fragmented, some things rich and clear, some barely there."

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A woman admires one of Catherine Day's pieces of art that is on display at Northern Virginia Community College's Waddell Art Gallery.

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A group of Northern Virginia Community College students crowds around artist Catherine Day as she speaks at the school's Waddell Art Gallery, where her works are on display.

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