Canadian Art

Browsing the Fall edition of Canadian art, we just came across a very nice description of the project we undertook in Fogo Island:

"...Later, Gunnarsdottir gives me a present from the Arts Corporation: a publication the foundation produced, a booklet of an artist project called 4 dimensional mapping that she curated in August 2009.
The project included artists from France, Scotland and Switzerland, [rather anonymous, basically us and Erika Irmler] and involved local residents. It documented an investigation of the material culture of Fogo Island, and contained locals' verbatim descriptions of geographical markers and the sea, recipes of traditional dishes like Jiggs' dinner, drawings of local architecture and other cultural points of interest, photographical portraits of residents, and copies of postcards sent to Glasgow detailing aspects of the island life. In its careful documentation of the culture, the 4 dimensional mapping project was not so different from the careful documentation undertaken by the original Fogo Process."

Rock Haven, Fogo Island’s Newfoundland art-residency experiment
by Lisa Moore

seascape 4

Another person to share with us their knowledge of the water, marks and seascape from their house, despite the beginning of the Tropical Storm Danny (didn't feel that tropical).



We're missing Erika and her skills in capturing the atmosphere of the place, but we're doing our best to follow on her footsteps.

Boat building

Windy days, even if Winston tells us that it's just a gentle breeze.

To continue the seascape project we went and met Frank, a boat builder in Tilting.


So much to hear about boat buildings and stories that happened to Frank, that we didn't have time to ask him about the seascape outside his window.

Marks

Earlier this week Ane and Aidan showed us some of the marks they use to find fishing shoals. They could cite by memory the names of about 70 shoals just outside of Joe Batt's Arm and would know the marks for each of them.

Seascape

Erika left, back to Geneva.
Now with a reduced team we started putting the material together for the final work.

Transcription of the video recordings of the seascapes

Dinner

As people invited us to eat some traditional food, we thought it would be nice to return the favour and invite them for a dinner in our house. We cooked a range of dishes (all vegetables and eggs from Winston's garden): quiches, brandade de morue (traditional mediterranean dish using salted cod), snow crab legs, coconut curry shrimps, scallops, salad, grilled salmon, roasted vegetables and a tarte tattin.
A very nice evening with accordion played by Joe and some singing from Greg and Melinda.

Seascape

As we were interested by the difference between the perception of the sea from an outsider as a flat surface and its understanding as a landscape with its hills, mountains, summits, valleys and plains by fishermen, Bonnie showed us a printed scroll she got from an old sonar system used in fishing boats showing the relief of the seascape. The sea as a chain of mountains.