Manitoba WeftLand
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 96”
2010
Weaving from one extreme to another, the plains seem to be timelessly mechanical. In truth, these routines are irregular and organic in nature. The practice of landscape painting often attempts to apply a possessive vignette to the land’s cycle, which can be seen as an encouragement of consistent human activity, and a justification for marring these lands for centuries. However, the laborious act of weaving with paint addresses the regularity of its seasonal transitions as a bid to appreciate their oscillations. The weft is therefore allowed to exist in between art and craft, the contemporary and domestic signifiers associated with textiles. By negating land as an object and replacing it with the notion of land as a process, an interchangeable power dynamic is woven through the territory and its inhabitants.
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