Gratitude

 

Series of lens-based wall works representing moments of appreciation for the extraordinary beauty of everyday wild flowers. Rather than being appreciated for their vital symbiotic relationship to a greater ecological environment they are often overlooked as merely pervasive weeds interfering with the construct of our self/socially cultivated and curated environments.

 

Works consist of two textile layers, each dye-sublimated with an enlarged abstracted floral image: a closeup image taken in situ during daily summer walks around the local corn field and a visual adaptation and interpretation of a scanning electron microscopic image (SEM) of that flower. Assembled they form an inside / out perspective of visual detailing both visible and invisible to the naked eye. Depth perception is enhanced with surface cut-outs in the upper translucent layer revealing imaging below.

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Vital to the evolution of this project was the microscopic imaging derived from original SEM’s documented by Erwin Huebner, cell biologist and visual artist: erwinhuebner.com

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Description: Lens-based imagery involving both photographs and SEM imagery, dye sublimation on textile, wood supports. 

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Dimensions: 72” x 48” x 1.5"

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Project supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.