poetry and paintings
To accentuate the care, precarity, and anxiety entailed in living with and by the ocean, I include poerty and paintings. Creative responses are needed to meet the challenges of climate change and, to this end, I aim to stimulate the imagination and make the matrieral personal.
Each chapter begins with an excerpt from Sue Goyette’s Ocean, a biography of the North Atlantic that is “part cautionary tale, part creation myth and part urban legend.” When I heard Sue Goyette read her work on CBC radio one morning, it was like listening to the themes that emerged in my research in poetic form. I also include poetry from geographer Tim Cresswell's Plastiglomerate, and my own poetry in which mobility and the environment are common themes.
Under the Weather is bookended by two Alex Colville paintings. Colville is known for his unsettling modernist depictions of daily life in Nova Scotia – the subject’s gaze often turns away from the viewer or is blocked, creating a sense of intimacy, anonymity, and voyeurism.
Each chapter begins with an excerpt from Sue Goyette’s Ocean, a biography of the North Atlantic that is “part cautionary tale, part creation myth and part urban legend.” When I heard Sue Goyette read her work on CBC radio one morning, it was like listening to the themes that emerged in my research in poetic form. I also include poetry from geographer Tim Cresswell's Plastiglomerate, and my own poetry in which mobility and the environment are common themes.
Under the Weather is bookended by two Alex Colville paintings. Colville is known for his unsettling modernist depictions of daily life in Nova Scotia – the subject’s gaze often turns away from the viewer or is blocked, creating a sense of intimacy, anonymity, and voyeurism.