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Penelope Stewart is an artist, curator/writer and publisher whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses expansive architectural installations/interventions, alternative photography, artist books, and works on paper. Re-current themes address notions of cultural memory, of time and space and a considered approach to the relationship between objects, architecture, gardens, landscape and the places between – places to intervene, inhabit and above all activate. Whether it has been historic sites such as Musée Barthète, a small museum in France, or a museum like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY or the deconstruction/reconstruction of a 19 th century book of botany using cyanotype, her intentions are to create sensory spaces, haptic experiences, transforming our perceptions and possible readings of space, time and memory.

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First Glimpses of Lake Superior

This was our first glimpse of Lake Superior. This part of the trip took the longest only because we kept stopping to look at something, rocks, water, more rocks etc. 

We made a plan to go to see Rebecca Belmore’s Wave Sound at
Pukaskwa National Park of Canada. This work is part of Landmarks 2017

We were a bit early as Rebecca had not finished installing.  I will check this out on my way back to Toronto in August.


Pukaskwa Park was however a great place to stop and have lunch. A very nice Park person showed us a great spot overlooking the water. We had arrived on Indigenous day and so there were festivities happening in the park. The elders had helped to reconstruct an encampment.

One wonderful thing was the smell of the forest, and water and the quiet. I will look forward to my next visit to see and listen to Rebecca Belmore’s Wave Sound.

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