AIM

2010

C-prints on archival paper

Dimensions: 60 x 42 inches

They are black and white prints hand-pulled in the darkroom. The image suggests a complete erasure of a liberation move- ment for American Indian and First Nations people in Can- ada. The form of the large black marks act as a refusal to release information and a covering of ideas. The marks sym- bolically cover indigenous thought, worldviews, and way of life. These are telling documents in what they don’t tell. The visual image of erasure changes the data to the unknown, unheard, perhaps unvalued and in some ways forces one to think about what is hidden and why.

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Also for the last few years I have been seduced by the grain and concerned about the death of film, which, unlike the repeated cries of the death of painting, is a very real threat, and I do not think film will have as many rebirths. I was invested in seeing the agency of the grain in these large works, my intention was to feature the grain as a strategy to acknowledge its existence and, per- haps, its pending death.