One Warm Line
severs the image and serves to slam
romantic landscape directly into 21st century concerns.


A single warm track of human activity
traces the frailty, audacity, or even the threat
of a persistent human presence in a land
that with equal persistence
remains so wide and savage and untamable.

One Warm Line - Cad Red,
Detail Fragile Oil Paint Fenceline


One Warm Line
severs the image and serves to slam
romantic landscape directly into 21st century concerns.

One Warm Line - Cad Red,
Detail Foreground Burlap and Encaustic

A single warm track of human activity

A single warm track of human activity
traces the frailty, audacity, or even the threat
of a persistent human presence in a land
that with equal persistence
remains so wide and savage and untamable.

One Warm Line
thin,
distinct,
a single warm trace of human activity

At this time of year
frigid brittle asphalt
is a welcome sign.
If you can see the yellow line,
you're probably going to make it
to your distant warm, safe destination.
If not...

Here,
between the flatlands and the mountains
a unique Albertan identity,
possibly even pride.
Its basis,simply our existence in this place.

One Warm Line - Cad Yellow, detail

At this time of year
frigid brittle asphalt
is a welcome sign.
If you can see the yellow line,
you're probably going to make it
to your distant warm, safe destination.
If not...

One Warm Line - Cad Yellow, detail

Here,
between the flatlands and the mountains
a unique Albertan identity,
possibly even pride.
Its basis,simply our existence in this place.

One Warm Line
thin,
distinct,
a single warm trace of human activity

One Warm Line
somewhat contradictory version of
cold, harsh and unforgiving
open spaces of January.

That contradictory Canadian sense
that winter is the time of year
to be bundled up and warm;
a wooly muffled feeling
despite the storms that rage,
or worse,
despite the still and crystal clarity
of a truly cold day.

One Warm Line - Woolen Red,
Detail Needlefelt Foreground

One Warm Line
somewhat contradictory version of
cold, harsh and unforgiving
open spaces of January.

Detail - felted edge and embroidered Fenceline

That contradictory Canadian sense
that winter is the time of year
to be bundled up and warm;
a wooly muffled feeling
despite the storms that rage,
or worse,
despite the still and crystal clarity
of a truly cold day.

One Warm Line - Cad Orange, Installed

One Warm Line
is rooted in
the barely-realized, sublime landscapes
of the mid-19th century.

Colour contrast
heightens awareness
of a single element:

These single warm lines of containment,
like some contemporary reenactment
of 17th century enclosures,
jealously guard a place of human presence in
the immense natural commons of the prairie.

rooted in
the barely-realized, sublime landscapes
of the mid-19th century.

One Warm Line - Cad Orange,
Detail - Oil paint transfers foreground and encaustic paint background

These single warm lines of containment,

One Warm Line - Cad Orange,
Detail - Oil paint transfers foreground and encaustic paint background

like some contemporary reenactment
of 17th century enclosures,

One Warm Line - Cad Orange, Detail, Fenclines

jealously guard a place of human presence in
the immense natural commons of the prairie.