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Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
News
Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
News
Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
After Paradise
After Paradise imagines a collection of used, souvenir biscuit tins as an ideal, perpetually blooming garden.
Where do we recognize paradise? What do we save?
Utopically pictured in most cultures as nature reordered, economic, instructional, and reassuringly, enclosed, paradise is also individually characterized by an illusive longing. Contemporary thinking cannot also escape questions of genetic engineering, sexual politics, colonialism, nationalism, and environmental responsibility. After Paradise considers this destabilized ideal in an interior space filled with nostalgic secondhand containers hoping to keep anxiety away.
Available in the Paradise Giftshop are collector postcards; Domestic Science, archival prints of favourite tins; and Paradise Tour Guides that interpret the installation as a collection, a garden and a souvenir.
Domestic Science continues my interest in the problem of naming through time. Floral images from the After Paradise collection are formally identified and inscribed with botanical latin, as well as by hand, with their common names. Both titles identify specific placements in science and history. They are species and cultivars found or bred, recognized through popular reproduction, used domestically, re-collected and identified again. Here an attribution can only be a best guess made from multiple old reference manuals as botanic names are updated over time with further genetic information, hybridization, or plants are no longer propagated and lost. Common names differ across the globe and at different times in different families. My story or your story may be privileged—a name found here, given by, used for, or be a reminder of something else.
Archival digital prints on Arches Aquarelle, 15" x 15", $250
