Presented by Stephen Bulger Gallery
September 14 - October 12, 2024
Stephen Bulger Gallery
1356 Dundas St. West
Fee: FREE
Website:
https://www.bulgergallery.com/events/100/overview/
This event is Accessible.
This event is Family Friendly.
In Book Series, pieces of scrap lumber are made to resemble books and photographed against a neutral background. Devoid of text, these “books” are nevertheless open to interpretation. Their titles refer to history, architecture, law, learning and so on. They are arranged or stacked in ways that also suggest buildings, towers, temples or monuments, all while retaining their identity as blocks of wood. As images for contemplation, these photographs play somewhere between representation, abstraction and their own objecthood. Books are, after all, made of wood.
Natural Language is a box of twenty-six postcards, one for each letter of the alphabet. The letters were found inscribed in the branches of trees in the forest. It took years of intermittent searching to find and photograph all twenty-six. The letters were then edited in Photoshop. Each card has a short text on the back. They can be used to make words or poems, play games, and tell fortunes.