The Idea of North
Installation view, Tufts University Art Galleries, 2007
The Idea of North is anchored on a found photograph of two Tanzanians on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and Glenn Gouldʼs 40-hour train ride on the Muskog Express from Winnipeg to Churchill, Manitoba in 1967. The project takes multiple forms; a reflecting pool, video installation, photographs, temporary sculptures, and a wall painting. These forms link my travels to the austere frontiers of northern Canada and western California. By conjoining disparate cultural and geographical places as overlapping, contingent spaces whose features blend into one another, the project unmasks the seeming inauthenticities that divorce an African locality operating as a conceptual generator for aesthetic systems through which North American landscapes can be articulated.
The Idea of North
Installation view, Tufts University Art Galleries, 2007
Perpetual Instability of Differentiation
(Foreground), Reflecting Pool, MDF board, Plexiglass, Water, 4’ x 6’ x 18”, 2007
Proposition 1: A Parallel Model for Physical and Conceptual Processes
Found Image, Archival colour pigment print, 5 x 7”, 2007
Proposition 2, Mountain, Badwater, Death Valley, California
Temporary Sculptural Installation, Archival colour pigment print, 26 x 36”, 2007
Proposition 3, Sign, Churchill River, Hudson Bay, Manitoba
Temporary Sculptural Installation, Archival colour pigment print, 26 x 36”, 2007
The Idea of North
Single channel video installation, 14:28 mins, 2007