Backbone/Background/Pelt 'Landscape of Experience' 1991 Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Backbone/Pelt was part of an installation at Vancouver Art Gallery. Prints from hands of seniors from Vancouver were used as the patterning filling the forms made by their shadows. The outlines of these forms were amalgamated to suggest a pelt, and imply indirectly the role of this part of the community in our society - unseen backbone. The work was reduced photographically, and printed on posters that were displayed at bus shelters throughout the city of Vancouver, British Columbia during October 1991. The work referred to the following thoughts and experiences. Being bandaged into one's own experience. The lines at the end of her fingers wore away because she was a machinist. Reinterpreting George Segal's piece as bungie jumping and falling. Finger prints are for criminals. The last time I had my prints taken was before going into an internment camp. << back