Glass Slide Study Bucks

Dimensions: 19/5” x 19.5”
Medium: Acrylic paint, acrylic gel transfer and paper on plexiglass.

These paintings were part of my initial studies for my Glass Slides series.

The source for these hand-painted gel transfers were a series of glass slides dating back to the early 1900s, found in my great-aunt’s dirt basement. Although the bulk of the slide are surveying images, mostly from the area around Fort McMurray, they are less about pure landscape and more about how people interact with the land that surrounds them. In these images, the Alberta landscape is seen through the lens of economics -- notions of the “grandeur of nature” are supplanted by a view of nature as exploitable resource. These also explore popular myths of the West as a frontier space, a place of infinite opportunities and possibilities.