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![]() Lois Dellert, "Landscapes", rammed earth, 2000 |
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Lois Dellert
As a PhD candidate in forestry from Toronto, Lois Dellert creates sculptures which raise ecological consciousness and "question our mechanistic view of nature". Through metaphor and a thoughtful approach to materials the artist highlights geological processes, creates public spaces and reveals the beauty of patterns in unexpected ways. Artworks such as "Virgin Forest: Chastity Belt for a Tree" and "Working Forest" comment on traditional forest industry designations of woodlands as either "virgin" or "working" resources. The artist cleverly exposes the assumptions of these views which advocate "a position that is controlling and dominating of nature, apply inappropriate gender-based imagery, and deny the forest its identity and life force." Dellert also applies an ancient building technique called rammed earth to create layered stratigraphic sculptures the size of fruit crates as well as large outdoor public art. Working with school children and teachers from Rick Hansen Secondary School in Ontario, the artist created "The Rammed Earth Project" - 3 large earthen walls with embedded cast objects in a new educational school garden. "Everyone watched as the walls were built, and students experienced new relationships with one another, the school population, the elementary school and the surrounding neighbours." One student explained, "When the final wall was being released on that last blistering day in the cold and the snow and that class came down to watch and applaud us, I felt like what we had done had actually made an impact on our school, whose focus is always on the athletic teams, and the arts are often overlooked." "To create 'Landscapes' [image shown], I used the landform-like pattern of fruit and vegetable trays trays/packages to mould the surface of the box-like rammed earth forms, linking the notion of geologic time and transformation with the molding of our land by the agricultural industry." Information
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