Installation view of SYSTEMS SYSTEMS CRUSH, at Open Space Gallery, by Vancouver artist and designer Kennedy Telford

PILGRIMAGE/LANDSCAPE

COLLABORATION WITH CHARLES GARDNER + CAITLIN LEWIS

OPEN SPACE MAY-JUNE 2002. CURATED BY TODD A. DAVIS

PHOTOS: Althea Thauberger + KT

Roll on, ye Stars! exult in youthful prime,
Mark with bright curves the printless steps of Time;
Near and more near your beamy cars approach,
And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach; —
Flowers of the sky! ye too to age must yield,
Frail as your silken sisters of the field!
Star after star from Heaven’s high arch shall rush,
Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush,
Headlong, extinct, to one dark center fall,
And Death and Night and Chaos mingle all!
— Till o’er the wreck, emerging from the storm,
Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form,
Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,
And soars and shines, another and the same.

Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1791), Part i.

21 PAINTINGS- 7 PAINTED ON THE WALLS

THE PAINTINGS + ARCHITECTURE DIRECTED THE VIEWER COUNTER-CLOCKWISE IN AN APPROXIMATE GOLDEN SPIRAL

DOME OF THE SKY DISK OF THE EARTH, in the art installation SYSTEMS SYSTEMS CRUSH, at Open Space Gallery, by Vancouver artist and designer Kennedy Telford

PACK WHAT YOU CAN CARRY, ENCOUNTER, DOME OF THE SKY/DISK OF THE EARTH + IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE

PACK WHAT YOU CAN CARRY + ENCOUNTER

DEPARTURE

HI OAK TREE, REMEMBER ME?, THE PILGRIM, DEPARTURE, PACK WHAT YOU CAN CARRY, ENCOUNTER, DOME OF THE SKY/DISK OF THE EARTH, IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE

I NEED A NEW KIND OF KICK + HI OAK TREE, REMEMBER ME?

DAMN!

FAILURE, SUCCESS, RED SQUARE + DAMN!

HANGING GARDEN, HOURS OF TREMOR, DOG NEEDS A FIELD + FAILURE

EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE/UP IN THE AIR/AT THIS POINT; THOUGHT GEORGE MALLORY, MAYBE FOR A MINUTE; THAT’S WHEN I REACH FOR MY REVOLVER + HANGING GARDEN