Summary
As his work, and that of recent University of Manitoba grad (and current UCLA master's student) Hill-Carroll suggests, the manufactured or industrial landscape is the modern equivalent of the natural vistas painted by the Group of Seven. Whereas it's often been suggested that the Group of Seven found inspiration in the rugged beauty of northern Ontario, as it reminded them of the battlefields of the First World War, for artists like Hill-Carroll, the modern manufacturing site does a similar thing. In addition to its own terrible beauty, it comes to represent something else greater than itself.
Unlike a recent exhibit here at Platform, where flowers were seen growing in an abandoned construction site, Hill-Carroll's images don't actually show much in the way of nature reclaiming these spaces. But in the subtle effects of wind and water and snow on these human-made hills, the slow, patient forces of nature are at least hinted at.So in each artist's work, there's a sense of nature not having been lost at all, but only compromised, a sense that it's right where it's always been, right next to and within our human settlements.See the full content of this document
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Life Goes On in and Around Industrial Landscape
Lorne Roberts
WHEN the Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s, it was hailed as the beginning of a golden age of progress, prosperity and health. And while in many ways it was just that, it was also recognized tha...See the full content of this document
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