My assemblage, Prairie 1 – Unsettled, is in good company at the CAG Juried Show until the end of October. The chosen works all inspire curiosity (how did they do that?) and creativity (how would I express this?) As the leaves drift down from the maple tree outside my window I marvel at how others have captured such exquisite moments in nature.
The Colborne Art Gallery itself is in the old county land registry, thus the bars on the windows. What was more valuable back then than title to land swindled away from First Nations! It is a land acknowledgment made manifest. That it is now an art gallery might go some way towards Reconciliaction. Let us be mindful when we cross that threshold.