Bison on Saskatchewan, facing right, black Artwork

Meet the Bison, also described as Buffalo, once found across much of Canada in vast herds, and hunted nearly to extinction in the 1800's, to satisfy the European market for furs. This Bison is a digital image created from an original analogue source, the silhouette of the Bison is cut out of a piece of paper which began life as a road map of Saskatchewan. The paper map is becoming an obsolete object, and I'm enjoying the creative challenge of recycling old maps I've used for motorcycle trips. My riding buddies have contributed maps too. The cutout of the animal, either in negative or positive space, in black or white, is then combined with map backgrounds (or foregrounds) on the flatbed of my scanner, creating ephemeral art that only exists digitally, although it shows traces of it's analogue origins in various ways; where the pieces of paper show space between them, or where the cut edges of the paper are uneven. This series of animal silhouettes began as an exploration of the forms of animals I see in my day to day life on the west coast, or in my childhood growing up in Ontario. As the series develops further, I'm exploring animals that have been important in Canada's development as a nation, either economically or historically or ecologically. The fur trade was partly responsible for Canada being settled by Europeans, and also how the Bison came to be hunted very close to extinction (after millennia of successful population management by Canada's indigenous people). As a person of European ancestry born in Canada I acknowledge my settler privilege, and I undertake to show respect for the beautiful land I'm grateful to inhabit now.

Mixed Media:Paper on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12.6 W x 9.4 H x 0 D in

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