‘Connected life’

From Falmouth, Maine-based artist Allison Hildreth’s show “Darkness Visible,’’ at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, through Jan. 7.

She has said:

“Our earth is a connected fabric of life, interdependent, a product of a long evolutionary process. Bats, the animals that weave the night sky in a chaotic flight, are, for me, the epitome of the wildness of nature.’’

Casco Bay from Falmouth, Maine in 1905.

Rendering of Fort Casco, in Falmouth, in 1705.