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8 blade imprints: resin, dichroic film, silver, rose gold
dimensions variable and reconfigured each time shown
Exhibition views: Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 2021
This series of opalescent resin blades is cast as a sister-work from the steel blades made by Jason de Haan and Warren McLachlan to commemorate the maiming of miners' wives during a strike in Corbin, BC. The optic qualities of dichroic film are reminiscent of opal, a major industry of Querétaro, Mexico ( a sister-city to Corbin on the migration route of hummingbirds). Known to the Aztecs as ‘hummingbird stone’, the opal is rich in folklore and superstition, including a belief that it protects the wearer by making them invisible. These opalescent ‘ghost blades’ conjure the parallels between weapon and tool; rending apart (destructive) vs. piercing through (transcendent)… just as the miners’ wives transformed their bodies from tools to weapons and eventually to symbols.
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