[gallery size="medium" ids="6798,6799,6800,6805,6801"] The installation Water Leak involves an aerial video projection of rushing glacier waters into an oil/juice drum, which is sitting on the baggage scale of the gallery’s original status as a train station. The overflow of the projection appears to be leaking from the bottom of the can positioned
[gallery size="medium" columns="4" ids="6497,6498,6496,6489,6491,6493,6495,6490,6492,6494,6048,6049,6047,6051,6050"] Arctic Crisis Part 1 and Ecology of Narrative Spaces Part 2 are a two-part series of digital photomontage prints using archival inks on fine art paper. In my view the flexibility of digital photomontage technique suited my aesthetic concerns relating to fluidity of identity, memory, loss and
[gallery size="medium" columns="2" ids="6807,6809"] This is a grid wall installation of video frame stills showing slight shifts in the position of my hands that hover over the open Arctic journals written in 1981. The sound element is a recording of my extemporaneous reading of daily travel notes written thirty years earlier
[gallery ids="6507,6508,6506,6511,6510,6514,6509,6515,6512,6504,6503,6517,6516,6513,6505"] Ecology of Narrative Space is a series of photomontage prints. In these works, I digitally layer my 1980-82 film photography of 6 central Arctic communities with transparent images of my corresponding same-date hand-written travel journals. The cursive calligraphy and content fade in and out with the tonal values within
[gallery ids="6812,6810,6813,6816,6820,6811,6815"] A layered assemblage of upholstered boxes, each holding shapes of naturally compressed river mosses and debris, found on the rocky shoreline of a shallow stretch of the Mississippi River at Carleton Place. Clear plastic cylinders separate the boxes. There is metaphoric meaning in each of the installation elements, their
[gallery size="medium" ids="6485,6486,6484,6487,6477,6482,6480,6488,6483,6481,6478,6479"] The Arctic Return Project 2013 and photography series marks my return to the same Central Arctic communities along the Northwest Passage where I worked from 1980 to 1982. The changes I observed in 33 years included the creation of the Nunavut territory (1999), houses with plumbing, more vehicles and
[gallery size="medium" ids="6080,6098,6081,6082,6083,6096,6085,6088,6090"] The "In Search of Bearings" wall installation and accompanying art video were exhibited at the City of Ottawa Corridor 45/75 Gallery over 4 months, 2022-2023. The wall installation comprises 10 panels of geographically sequenced, outdated, and used full-sheet navigation charts of the St Lawrence Seaway. Painting motifs of stationary
[gallery size="medium" columns="2" ids="6983,6982"] “River Shores” is a wall-hanging assemblage comprising two sets of 6 connected, similar but different, ceramic elements. This work bridges the idea of the river shores as the physical and metaphorical intersection of earth and water and, thereby, our identity with place. Inspirations include kayaking along the
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