Gallery 2 | Susan Warner Keene

Canopy #1 (detail)

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Canopy #1

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 48.3 cm diameter x 1.3 cm/ 19 in. diameter x 0.5 in.
Collection: Private Collection
Text: ”It was all forest, a boundless sea of forest ...”

- Anna Jamieson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, 1838

Correspondence (detail)

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Canopy #2

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 50.8 cm diameter x 2.5 cm/ 20 in. diameter x 1 in.
Collection: Private Collection
Text: ”It was all forest, a boundless sea of forest ...”

- Anna Jamieson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, 1838

"No two seasons ..." (detail)

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Variance #1 (detail)

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Reading the Signs (detail)

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Two Seasons (detail)

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Variance #1

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 88.9 x 52.1 x 3.8 cm/ 35 x 20.5 x 1.5 in.
Collection: Department of Foreign Affairs, Canadian Embassy, Korea
Text: “No two seasons have been at all alike and it is supposed it will be still
more variable as the work of clearing the forest goes on from year to year.”

- Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, 1836

Variance #2 (detail)

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Canopy #2 (detail)

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Canopy #3 (detail)

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Canopy #3

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 68.6 cm diameter x 1.9 cm/ 27 in. diameter x 0.75 in.
Collection: Rio Tinto Alcan
Text: ”It was all forest, a boundless sea of forest, within whose leafy recesses
lay hidden an infinite variety of life ... as within the depths of the ocean.”

- Anna Jamieson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, 1838

Correspondence

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 54.6 x 109.2 x 1.3 cm/ 21.5 x 43 x 0.5 in.
Texts:
“Neat comfortable houses, surrounded by patches of clearing, arose on either side of the forest road.”
and
“Never did my eyes rest on a more lovely or beautiful scene. Not a vestige of man or of his works was there.”

- Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush, 1852

Two seasons

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 45.1 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm/ 17.75 x 36 x 1 in.

Text: “No two seasons have been at all alike and it is supposed it will be still
more variable as the work of clearing the forest goes on from year to year.”

- Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, 1836

Variance #2

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Date made: 2004
Material: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 134.6 x 61 x 2.5 cm/ 53 x 24 x 1 in.
Text: “No two seasons have been at all alike and it is supposed it will be still
more variable as the work of clearing the forest goes on from year to year.”

- Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, 1836

Verso #1

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 54.6 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm/ 21.5 x 33 x 1 in.
Collection: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Text: “Never did my eyes rest on a more lovely or beautiful scene.
Not a vestige of man or of his works was there.”

- Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush, 1852

Reading the Signs

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 61 x 86.4 x 3.8 cm/ 24 x 34 x 1.5 in.
Collection: AstraZeneca Canada Inc., Mississauga, Ontario
Text: “No two seasons have been at all alike and it is supposed it will be still
more variable as the work of clearing the forest goes on from year to year.”

- Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, 1836

Verso #1 (detail)

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"No two seasons ..."

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 86.4 x 68.6 x 2.5 cm/ 34 x 27 x 1 in.
Collection: Private Collection
Text: “No two seasons have been at all alike and it is supposed it will be still
more variable as the work of clearing the forest goes on from year to year.”

- Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, 1836

Verso #2

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Date made: 2004
Materials: handmade flax paper
Measurements: 36.8 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm/ 14.5 x 27.5 x 1 in.
Collection: Private Collection
Text: “Never did my eyes rest on a more lovely or beautiful scene.
Not a vestige of man or of his works was there.”

- Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush, 1852

Verso #2 (detail)

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