Two little girls stand transfixed before a mixed-media sculpture by Emily Jan, which takes the life-sized shape of a fabulous anteater. Its intense pink, shiny tongue is frozen in a gesture that snakes towards the girls and then ends with a flourish of greenery. A large bouquet of vividly coloured flowers cascades from its hindquarters… Read More
Just over a week before Flotilla, I drafted and deleted about five different emails to Philippa at Eastern Edge. In them, I explained to her why I couldn’t attend the event in PEI anymore. I was convinced I had nothing to say worth sharing. And I was feeling as though I wasn’t Indigenous enough to… Read More
[Intentional – Deliberate – Unhurried – Precise – Defined – Clear – Strong – Resilient – Irrepressible – Uncontainable – Wild – Enthusiastic – Eager – Impatient] [Unintentional – Accidental – Unplanned – Unexpected – Surprising – Astonishing – Mysteries] Intentionality What is our relationship to the intentional? I love synonyms. When I was learning… Read More
islandness, a collaborative exhibition between artists Jane Walker (Newfoundland) and Vivian Ross-Smith (Shetland Islands), is the first installment of a living experiment spanning across the Atlantic between two northern islands. Since meeting in 2015, the two artists have explored their identities shaped by living and working in rural contexts and the influence it has had… Read More
Fungible. A word I like the look of, only recently noticed, and had to look up: with origins in the Latin of legal language, it describes an item “[…] which precisely supplies the place of another […],”1 an equivalent thing. In the original, legal use of the term, it was important for the distinction to… Read More