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A Walk in the Park was completed during my Community Art Residency supported by the North Vancouver Recreation Commission in 2022. I took residence in a field house in Chris Zuehlke Memorial Park in North Vancouver for 3 months. Through the duration of the residency, I would take walks around the park and search for discarded litter, most often plastics. Back at the field house I would carefully clean, sort and arrange these found pieces, thus drawing attention to them as objects and materials worthy of our consideration. Elevating their status and perceived worth sheds light upon the issues of the plastics pollution crisis and how the throwaway culture continues ceaselessly. Classified and arranged by chromatic colour, there is a playful presentation of this process, reflecting the activities that go on in the park - kids playing on the playground, playing sport, people walking dogs and more. The title refers to the metaphor of a ‘Walk in the Park’ as being something easy and pleasant to do, a somewhat tongue in cheek reference to the seemingly intractable burden of the plastics crisis.
Found objects, encaustic paint, cardboard, canvas.
2022
Approx 2’ x 6’