This body of this work centres on imagery drawn from my near landscape, and, in particular, the Hagersville Tire Fire -- a local event of apocalyptic scale which forced us to recognize limitations, if only temporary ones, in our destructive relationship with the land.
I am using this material in both the anecdotal and metaphorical sense in which the elements of this disaster -- smoke, fire, firefighters and the landscape itself -- seek to relay the story of the fire as they conjure and connect with the larger issues that provide a framework for our cultural identity.