figure 3: River canoe route through the badlands traced from pages in a guide book then machine-sewn on paper and accordion-bound into an undulating, overlapping book that opens and spreads, wave-like, across a horizontal plain. Confluence I (Bow/Oldman/Red Deer/Saskatchewan Rivers) bookwork; paper, thread, 188.0 x 24.1 x 7.6 cm, 2017
all images this page: Gabriela Garcia-Luna
figure 4 : The South Saskatchewan River carves its way through badlands seeking the lowest point of gravity; these water currents are represented by long strands of embroidery floss sewn in running stitches across eight panels enlarged from the pages of a book of local topographic maps. Confluence II (Bow/Oldman/Red Deer/Saskatchewan Rivers) , bookwork; mixed media on pellon, 312.4 x 426.8 x 782.3 cm, 2020-2021
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on site review 42: atlas :: being in place
:: complex systems
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