Planetary Fluke – Janet Bellotto

In further reading the author takes us on a delightful journey to Sable Island in Planetary Fluke for what seems to experience rare mammal life. Over centuries the island has sustained great catastrophes of shipwrecks and storm surges. In this compelling artist book, Bellotto narrates in a photographic research project the Canada Parks island, a visual and captivating place as being a potential loss. What echoes in the coarse winds and precarious sand drifts of the sealine is our witnessing of time passing of the eastern Canadian Atlantic where the protection of parks and wildlife are in isolation from any sovereign world.

Janet Bellotto is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from Toronto, and Dubai. Bellotto’s most recent practice-based research projects, Future Islands explores narratives, histories, and ecologies of specific islands and archipelagos.