For our winter issue, I had the great pleasure of speaking to Saskatoon-based multi-disciplinary artist Amalie Atkins about her practice. After over a decade of writing, sewing, shooting, and editing, Akins presented her trilogy The Diamond Eye Assembly to audiences at the Remai Modern in the spring of 2019. Atkins and I communicated for months, sharing our thoughts on the project and its underlying message concerning mourning, preservation, and restoration. As this issue comes to fruition, Atkins concluded our conversation by saying, “…the characters in my film are women of action. They move through their grief, and find their way.” Our capacity to move through life’s exhaustive pain and loss is examined throughout this issue. Each artist discussed manifests their own map to solace and strength during their shadow hour.
– Maxine Proctor, Managing Editor
Featured Articles
Leaky Bodies: Performance and Pain in the Work of Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau by Cindy Baker
Eve Tagny: Beyond Grieving and Healing by Mojeanne Behzadi
Dislocation and Reclamation: Rebuilding Indigenous Families in Gil Cardinal’s Foster Child and Tasha Hubbard’s Birth of a Family by Adriana Chartrand
She & Her & Me: Arpita Shah, Clea Christakos-Gee, Jennifer Long, Margaret Mitchell curated by Clare Samuel
Between Two Fictions: Kevin Ei-ichi deForest by Lillian O’Brien Davis
Generation to Generation: The Legacy of Loss in the Films of Amalie Atkins by Maxine Proctor
The Butterfly Effect: Landscape and Myth in the Photographic Work of Zoe Koke by Lauren Lavery
Book of Mormon Stories Ruth Cuthand Retells to Me by Jera MacPherson
Cover Image: Chris Morin, Endless Goose Sadness, 2020. Digital illustration.
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