Anthropocene: Traces of Another Time in the Landscape: photographs and video Installation. sound: John Cage Litany for the Whale

Exhibitions: Open Gallery and Rice Theater, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta ,Canada 2016-2017. “Remembering and Forgetting” “Traces of Another Time in the Landscape” Video (5:05min) Grunwald Art Gallery, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design | Indiana University

Three part installation.

1. Bison and Historic Ecologies: three multichannel projections, series of postcards of erratic stones, lights, and sound piece (John Cage: Litany for the Whale).

Part 2. Fragments of a Landscape: photographs of tunnel mountains projected on rocks with white postcards

Part 3. Altered Landscapes: photographs of Tunnel Mountain projected on Tunnel Mountain (Original name is “Sleeping Buffalo”)

Traces of Another Time in the Landscape captures a landscape through touch and memory. The viewer gazes at a hand caressing a stone called “rubbing rock” the camera follows the hand between crevices and curves formed by the traces of the bison movement between grass, wallows and rock. The dream like quality of the video suggests a glimpse of the past by zooming in on the legendary impressions left behind on rubbing rock. It becomes an assemblage of images: hand, bison, rock, melting ice, river, lichen and grass, linking the present ecology to the anthropogenic landscape. The various erratic stones left behind on Nose Hill date back 15,000 years ago during the retreating ice age. When the tectonic plates lined up and the ice melted, leaving stone deposits on the hill, which until recently became a remarkable geological

discovery. The images transition from Nose Hill to Mt. Rundle, Tunnel Mountain and the Bow River in Banff characterizing another time in the landscape. Therefore, the link to geologic time is expressed in the rock formation and striation of an ice age where rocks and vegetation changed because of the retreating ice and the movement of glaciers.

The Canadian Rockies are ninety minutes from Calgary which is located in the foothills of the prairies and east of the Rockies. Nose Hill is a protected park and one of the largest municipal parks in Canada and is one of many places where the ecology and bison were homologous to the ecosystem. Nose Hill eventually became a protected municipal park because of the native vegetation, historical archaeological and geological sites. In 2017, a law was passed to introduce bison back into Banff National Park by returning the bison to the original historical and wild ecological environment.

Multi-channel video ice floating (Bow River, Banff) postcards with lights, video of touching rubbing rock.