The following book is a little collection of interviews I conducted with contemporary Vancouver artists in September 2013. All of the artists deal somehow with ideas of nature or wilderness. I’m not interested in making any totalizing statements about Vancouver, contemporary art, or nature, but this project was an exploration of all of those things. I’ve called it Wild. This collection relates to several things that are wild, in the ecological sense: Karin Bubaš placing her subjects, like film stars or Romantic paintings, staring off into the landscape; Cameron Kerr revisiting modernist sculpture, in the wilderness, with a chainsaw; Evan Lee subverting natural history and photography in tandem; and Alison Yip aligning landscape painting and portraiture in unexpected ways. The artists and works share some similar concerns, and then wander off into many other territories.
cover: hand-printed etching on watercolour paper, hand-bound, 4.25x5.5in
2013