started in PEI , game of buckets with Jeffryn.
idea of the moon, magical universal, show cycle of time, every one looking at the moon at the same time, never looks exactly the same time. Nothing can come close to the phenomenon of the moon.
moon right outside bedroom window.
one thing that always travels with you.
satellites are in orbit like the moon, most radical tied to the most ancient. GPS ...
also fighting cliche aspects of full moon
never uses photographic references
looks abstract but is in fact figurative
lost river paintings - twilight zone, full moon in one of them
as a child growing up in Kawarthas, travelling in boats, lie in bottom of boat at night. Grandfather has to memorize horizon space of the land and sky at night.
- Saskatchewan paintings is where Galileo research came in. looking at relationship to mapping. no moon in those paintings.
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