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Art

Shift

Inversion

The multi-sited sculptural work, Inversion, is a comment about our current, local relationship with the age old Canadian and particularly urban interaction with nature. Simply put, nature has now been turned on its head. The threat has gone, the desire is not to fortify our existence against the wilderness which has been tamed to disappearance, but rather, it is now a nostalgic desire to embrace what no longer exists. Our current longing is to return a sense of nature to our environment, not to build walls against its presence, but rather to embrace nature.

Site Specific

Site Specific, by Toronto- and Philidelphia-based artist team Scott Eunson and Marianne Lovink, uses the 40 metre long linear site to portray, in abstract pattern and form, a deep history of human existence in the immediate area, with an expanded focus on the era of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, whose home was on the site of the adjacent Inglenook Secondary School. The artists worked with historian Karolyn Smart Frost and the students of the school in the making of the artwork and a related student exhibition. Site Specific brings visual poetry about the human stories that make a place.