God Love Brigus II

Alberta Printmakers, Calgary 2017

In the summer of 2014, I participated in a residency at Landfall Trust in Brigus, Newfoundland. During my 3-week stay, I researched the history of the area and took note of the weather. I watched an iceberg slowly dissolve in the bay, learned about Captain Bob Bartlett, who was an arctic explorer that once brought a polar bear home to Brigus and met Ray, the caretaker of Landfall, who told me a story about his grandfather—a whaler that lost his life in an explosion at sea. God Love Brigus compiles these experiences into a floating raft that mixes sculpture, print, sound and video. Thanks to everyone at Landfall Trust for making me feel so welcome and inspired.

This is the second iteration of this project, which integrates my idea of table colleges, along with the notion of reading the gallery space—sentiments that are akin to methodologies in museum studies, the organization of collections and how text narrates the stories of objects and images.