“EVERY DRAWING I MADE WHILE ON THE ROAD TO SEE JOAN JONAS’ EXHIBITION WE COME FROM THE SEA AT THE INVERNESS COUNTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS AND ELTUEK ARTS CENTRE USING ONLY ONE DRAWING IMPLEMENT IN AN ATTEMPT TO BASK, BATHE, BREATHE IN THE SUBMLIME BUT ALL I CONJURED WAS A SORE NECK, STRANGE LOOCKS AND A HARD RAIN (WE REALLY NEEDED IT)”

Inkjet reproductions of graphite drawings in a staple bound zine

2025

This book was created between August 23 and August 26 of 2025 while visiting some friends in Inverness, Cape Breton. It was the end of a long few years and a summer of wild fires breaking out across the Maritimes. We were in a drought. Nova Scotia had banned access to the woods for the public. The title describes the literal story of my travels across the island, on a pilgrimage to see work by one of my favourite and impactful artists, Joan Jonas. As I left the Eltuek Centre for the Arts and made my way back to Inverness it began to rain for the first time in weeks, pouring throughout the night and bringing back the absent fog and mist the island is so well known for. The title makes reference to the connection between romanticism, observational drawing, and the impossibility of our capture the grandiose nature of the world in a small 4 x 6 sketch book.