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.

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.

Jiggs dinner

Phyllis cooked us Jiggs dinner in her cabin.
Jiggs dinner is another traditional meal with salt meat, boiled vegetables, peas pudding, and dumplings, a cross between a British sunday lunch and a stew. The slat meat is a traditional way of preserving meat to last for the winter and the vegetables are the staple of the crop in Fogo Island's gardens.

On the way to Phyllis' and Frank's cabin

The Dough Boys, or dumplings

Winston's gardens

Winston cultivates a number of gardens, demonstrating the variety of vegetables that can grow on the Island. Traditionally all household had a garden, but with the more easily accessible shops and the fact that they need to be looked after at the same time as the fishing season, there are fewer gardens now.

One of Winston's garden