Ananta
Installations
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CAVA Gallery - Edmonton, 2022 (link) | |
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Women's Art Museum Society of Canada - Edmonton 2020 | |
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Port Moody Gallery Port Moddy, BC (Igniting Hope) - 2020 |
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The Art of Caring, St Georges Hospital · St Pancras Hospital · London, UK 2020 | |
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Artist Statement The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is DRIVEN by it. Thoppenhauer
Time is ever changing, uncontrollable, influential and affects everything on this planet. It is a personal measure with which we align ourselves with everything else; people, projects, landscape, climate, advancement, achievement, history. The present is an elusive destination as the passing of each moment subtracts time from our lives. We can’t describe “now” because “now” is the past immediately after it arrives. This makes it very difficult to look at something now and predict accurately how it may grow in the future. Time is an invisible cage that we are in, trying to regulate when we wake, eat and work. Despite this attempt, our circadian rhythms make decisions for us that ignore the construct of time, a communal creation of humans. Attitudes about time regulate life and rhythms of life regulate attitudes about time. In an era when the internet has perpetual daylight, it challenges our biological rhythms and attempts to quantiy and understand time. We strain towards the future to evaluate our own present. Time is our own personal system for keeping our memories straight. We have a retrospective view of our lives by which we judge ourselves, and which can lead to corresponding errors of anticipation as we attempt to predict our future. Time is really a reflection of what each person determines. Time’s effects are both visible and invisible, felt and not felt. Events are triggered by other events, often not by time. Time gains its value in its infinitude. Time never ends, it never began. No clock started at the moment life began and no clock will stop if life on earth stopped. Each year is one trip around the sun. Thousands of futures are possible in that time frame. One split second can decide an outcome. Time is a rigid bonelike structure, fossilizing the future. |
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First Caress |
Pandora's Box
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Waiting Audience |
| My climate change poster! I may not be Greta Thunberg but I wanted to make a statement about plastic bottles in my own way. This is a lithograph print from 1886 originally titled “Pandora’s Box” and I have silkscreened on top of it with images of the plastic water bottles. The plastic bottles in our world were let out without an understanding of the implications, which is why I used Pandora’s Box for this piece. As a society we need to think about the end life of the products we bring into the world, invent and purchase rather than just think about the convenience or the filling of a want in life. Definition — Pandora’s box: A process that generates many complicated problems as the result of unwise interference in something. Unintended consequences can be staggering sometimes. |
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Rendezvous Rendezvous in the forest anyone??? Eleanor of Aquitaine needed a way to remind King Henry II of what time it was when he was out on a hunt; this way he wouldn’t forget about their secret rendezvous. So she gave him a sundial and in return he made an even more beautiful replica of it for her, with the inscription “Carpe Diem” meaning “Seize the Day.” I own a replica of this sundial and used it to create this piece. The original print is called “The Rendezvous” and is a lithograph from 1886. I added the sundial silkscreen/serigraph over the print and am delighted with how the faces are framed in the sundial as |
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Butterflies _ Time's Up Where have all the butterflies gone? This piece is called “Time’s Up”. I’m continuing to work on some new concepts and ideas, this one is the loss of wildlife, insects in particular in this one. The butterflies are encased in an hourglass. The hourglass is a linocut and the butterflies are a collage. The registration (lining up the collage and print) was challenge on this one. |
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Inspired by a recent conversation with a former school teacher of mine, I decided to post “When is the last time?” These pieces are about life and the environment. We never know when is the last time we will see another person, experience something or when the last of a species of birds sings. Each moment, even the unpleasant ones, are precious and form us into the person we are. I truly believe that opportunities and experiences multiply as they are seized, so I try and seize as many as I can, even if they are scary or will push me to the limits of my abilities. |
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Time's Up - Wilson's Warbler
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Time's Up - Marbled Murrelet |
Time's up - Stellar Jay |
Time's Up - Bank Tailed Pigeon |
Time's Up - Tuffted Puffin |
Time's Up - Black Oyster Catcher |
Time's Up - Dunlin |
Time's Up - Violet Green Swallow |
Time's Up - Fugoud Hummingbird |
Time's Up - Black Swift |
Time's Up - Black Turnstone |
Time's Up - Bonaparte's Gull |
Ink on Vintage book pages Serigraph 16 x 14" , 40.64cm x 35.56cmcm 2019
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Time's Up - Chestnut Backed Chickadee |
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Time is a Rigid Bonelike Structure Fossilizing the Future Porcelain Since the first humans used their spine of 33 bones to stand up and look to the horizon they have been fossilizing the future for others. |
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