Investigating the life of things across space and time
Mixed media series (smartphone photographs taken in my studio space and through car windows; Instagram filters; printmaking, collage and drawing; 148mm x 210mm) made during the Tim Mara artist residency at University of Calgary
by Sarah Gillett
Joseph reaches down and picks up a shell. He hands it to the boy, who is dragging a red plastic bucket across the sand. “Here. What about this one?”
Bill assesses the offering intently. “No Daddy,” he says firmly, “It’s broken here, see.”
Exo-terrestrial life on asteroids and comets occupying both observed and theoretical regions of space in our Solar System.
Most people whose mental digestion of the marvellous is quite robust will refuse to believe this account, and yet there must be a few whose hair has been stirred and whose hearts have beat an unusual tattoo at the sound of a ‘Something Inexplicable’ in the watches of the night. Our conclusion is that there are such things as spirits, and in believing, we tremble…