This body of work (Verso) emerged from several overlapping areas of
interest: in narrative as a kind of mapping; in the possibilities of language
as physical form; and in paper as the substance rather than the traditional
substrate of a work of art.
The pieces in Verso are based on excerpts from the writing of three English
women who described their encounters with the southern Ontario landscape in the
1830s. Anna Jamieson, Susanna Moodie, and Catharine Parr Traill, all educated
middle class women, recorded their impressions with a public readership in
mind, primarily an English audience. Their observations reveal a shared
ambivalence toward the landscape they encountered. Transcribed in high shrinkage flax pulp, each text becomes an object with dimension, language with shadow.
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