Keeper of Industrial Memory

Abstract

This is a story. This is a biography of a place. This is a historical document. This is an autobiographical account of a time and place from a particular point of view. Cape Breton, a small island on the most eastern edge of Canada, was once a Canadian industrial hub. As a people, Cape Bretoners hauled coal from the depths of the earth and used that fuel to make steel. For those reasons, it seems fitting and familiar to me that metal is one of my mediums of choice for my art practise. Another home. It’s in my blood.