Cemeteries have always been a mystery to me, a bit overwhelming with all the past lives they represent. For this project, I happened to be at Prospect on a foggy day. I felt as if I was walking into a giant cloud, its mistiness softening contours of scraggly branches, people visiting graves of their loved ones. It was eerie yet peaceful, a cemetery yet a pleasant garden to stroll by.
Invitation from Schuster Gindin, curator of Sidespace Gallery:
LIFE in the Cemetery
January 18 – February 20, 2009
Opening Sunday, January 18, 3 – 6 pm
Prospect Cemetery is the largest greenspace in our neighbourhood. It is a stop along the flightway for migratory birds. It is an arboretum where trees mature uncrowded, and expand to their natural shape. Within it are gravestones with slowly fading inscriptions, fading silk and top-heavy plastic flowers inclining toward the grass, a beech grove, stilled artillery and candles fizzled in the rain.
What here is transitory and what permanent? In a group exhibition of painting and photographs, artists consider life amidst the dead.
1080 St. Clair Ave. W www.sidespacegallery.com
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