Prairie Fusion -
Portage la Prairie 2025

Weyburn Art Gallery-Weyburn, SK 2027

Estevan Art Gallery - Estevan SK

ANANTAest unprojet d'exposition en duo abordant le thème duTEMPS,
une notion fluide difficile à définir, irréversible, impalpable et indissociable
d'un espaceque nous divisons facilement par lepassé, présent et futur.
Pour le mesurer, nous utilisons différents systèmes: les années,
les saisons, les mois ou même les accomplissements. Nous
reconstituons le temps par des découvertes, des souvenirs, des
repères spécifiques marquant notre personne ou notre société.
Ces repèrent diffèrent selon les individus etles cultures. Toutefoisil
est indéniable qu'avec le temps, l'espace se transforme à
des vitesses variables affectant notre mode de vie et vice-versa.
Parler du futur,là nous tombons dans l'abstraction et nos actions
individuelles et collectives définissent les possibilités du futur.

Time is a Rigid Bonelike Structure Fossilizing the Future
Porcelain- 52 mobius bands
40 x 5 x 4”
2019

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. Through evolution, skill development, and luck, societies have come and gone from this planet, it is continual cycle of life and death which is symbolized in the Mobius band used to create each porcelain piece.  Countless decisions were made in the moment in order to secure a future for themselves and following generations.  Each decision made in the past affected the now. Each good idea or error in judgement made can be experienced over time, possibly even affecting generation to generation. When making decisions in the “now” care must be taken because that decision could fossilize the future and impact others who we may or may not meet.

Living in Tatterdemalion Times
ink on canvas
silkscreen

interactive piece, visitors unravel the threads

Returning to the Earth over Time – Can't Bury it
Various sized terra cotta stones 1 x 1 x 1” - 6 x 6 x 2”
Silkscreen
Glaze, underglaze and terra cotta
2020

The Hamilton and Toronto Sewer Pipe Company built a factory in Clarkson (Mississauga) in 1955 with the idea of operating a state of the art facility on the shore of Lake Ontario.   For the next 25 years, the facility produced various sizes of baked clay pipes.  As with any manufacturing, there were often pieces that didn’t meet the company’s quality standards.  These pipes were piled up at the edge of the property along the shore of Lake Ontario. The pipes were buried and forgotten and the factory closed in 1979.  Slowly, the embankment has been eroding and the pipes are being exposed to the weather and water.  As they break up and fall into the lake they get tumbled by the waves until they become small rounded shingles.  They mix with shale from the lake bottom to form a shingle beach.  The tiles on the east end of the site are the least broken up and as you walk west along the shore they become smaller and more rounded.

I use these broken pipes as the metaphor for dying. These pipes are slowly returning to the earth through wave action with the tiles on the east end of the site the least broken up and as you walk west along the shore they become smaller and more rounded.  This is due to the natural counter clockwise east to west rotation of the lake.

The moment we are born we are aging, with each breath and with each blink of ours eyes takes I closer to being back to the earth and part of the earth rather than one it. Just like these stones broken up by age and waves we slowly break down as well with each action we take from a smile to a breath of air.