Artist Statement

“In Search of Bearings,” a series of 10 paintings on sailing navigation charts, is about the psychosocial uncertainty of finding our way through changing corridors of places and identities. Sequences of used and now cancelled nautical maps of the St. Lawrence Seaway are reinvented using this narrative theme.

I was selected as one of thirty inter-discipline artists from around the world for the Arctic Circle 2019 Arts & Sciences Expedition residency. The book includes a map itinerary of the names of nineteen anchorages and their global coordinates for photo references.

The intersections of global climate change impacts in the Svalbard Archipelago and the St. Lawrence Seaway are tangibly linked by the northward flow of the increasingly warming Florida/Atlantic Gulf Stream.