This evening I went to the local art gallery. I'd seen most of the displays previously; various ceramic pieces, sculpted and molded. On installation was a whole room that people had "played in" and then left the ceramics/pottery alongside graffitied poetry and miscellaneous scraps. There was a textiles display as well.
The notable bit of the evening was the artist intervention done by Seema Goel. She was there this evening to introduce and discuss the room she curated. She decided to juxtapose a salon-style arrangement of landscape paintings with 1960's Inuit prints. Seema commented that in both instances the landscapes were romanticised: the landscapes, with their absence of people, came from an era when Europeans were transitioning from an agrarian culture into the industrial revolution -- the old landscape was what people wanted and inherently ownable; the Inuit prints, subjects devoid of landscape, represented the Inuit people who were resettled in the Canadian north -- the landscape being unownable perhaps via the peoples' once transitory lifestyle or the political forces at hand.
Of course, the WonderBread(R) sculptures were quite intriguing as well. Regardless, it was good to engage in the conversation she created.