Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2007–2026 – Marlene Creates

Environmental artist in Canada, Marlene Creates extends her ongoing photographic investigations of the six-acre patch of old-growth boreal forest in Portugal Cove on the island of Newfoundland / Ktaqmkuk, the unceded territory of the Indigenous Mi’kmaq and Beothuk. The book brings together the complete set of 154 photographs spanning a project of 19 years in this series, Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2007–2026. The sequence is composed of 77 black-and-white photographs taken on 35 mm film and 77 reprises as colour digital photographs. They are presented as pairs and showcase. Create’s close attention to processes of time, memory, and of local ecologies. As engaged viewers our attention is required for a close look between the photographs. The tree and forest reference to some of the major effects the climate crisis is having on the ecosystem in the last 11 years as much a ‘place-based history’ the artist calls home since 2002 in Newfoundland. The book includes an essay by award poet and author, Matthew Hollett from St. John’s.

ISBN: 978-1-988817-23-1
Format: .375 x 6 x 10 in
160 pages
Perfect-bound, colour images
Production: FSC Mix certified paper
Non-fiction