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“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.

The recent Covid-19 global Pandemic virus rudely highlights our global interdependency, nations acting together to prevent spreading, the search for treatments and a vaccine. Science predicts with rapid climate changes an increased frequency of global virus pandemics.

The Centrepointe Neighbourhood Magazine featured my photo on their cover (Lindsay Maahs) and an interview article by Sophie Desrosiers about my Arctic Circle Expedition June 2019, and follow-up presentations titled Sailing the Top of the World hosted by Britannia Yacht Club. I plan to publish the presentation as a book sometime in 2020.

Thanks everyone who made it to the Sailing the Top of The World presentations in November 2019 at the Research in Art (RIA) 94th Salon and Britannia Yacht Club hosted event. There will be publications by the same name in both ebook and hard copy formats available at Amazon.ca in 2020.

I’m pleased to report, all my Kickstarter Backer Rewards for their support helping me participate in the Arctic Circle Expedition in June are fulfilled, a month ahead of schedule. It is with gratitude that I will give presentations to the Research in Art (RIA) Salon Wednesday Nov 20, 7 pm.

It’s true I have a story to tell about my Arctic Circle expedition as a multi-media artist whose practice contributes to climate change discussions. Building toward that story and presentation, scheduled for November 27, 2019 at Britannia Yacht Club (BYC) in Ottawa Canada, I’ve benefited by responding in gratitude to my Kickstarter Backers

Oh the stories I could tell! Well not for a while, that’s for sure. Sailing at the top of our globe in the Svalbard Archipelago is a humbling experience on many levels. Especially the consciousness of how we are smaller than a spec in any Arctic Circle landscape, a reality check for an urbanite from southern Canada.