![]() ![]() To be featured in “Aalaapi,” Théâtre d’aujourd’hui, Montréal, Québec, 29 January-16 February 2019.Scratch it just a little and see what’s underneath.” ![]() It remakes the familiar into something glorious and new, saying so clearly what so much else here is straining to articulate: Land is power, and its surface only tells one tale. ![]() It’s called Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada, and God bless its straightforwardness: Over years, Margaret Pearce collaborated with dozens of Indigenous groups to resurrect traditional names for places nationwide (my local favourites: ‘At where it is heard approaching,’ somewhere north of what we call Huntsville, or ‘Place of calling silvery waters’ near the Kawarthas). ![]() The familiar boundaries of Canada span sea to sea, filled in-between with words. It’s–wait for it–a map, conventional-seeming until viewed up close. “OCADU’s Diagrams of Power: All these maps and it’s still a bit lost,” Review by Murray Whyte,Toronto Star 28 July 2018.Selected for “Diagrams of Power,” Ontario College of Art and Design University exhibition, 11 July-30 September 2018.Selected for Atlas of Design, Volume 4 (North American Cartographic Information Society, 2018).First Place, Thematic Map category, 2017 CaGIS Map Design Competition. ![]()
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