Winds and heavy rains carve channels in the rocks relatively quickly. The effect of wind and water on these landscapes means that they are constantly changing. They were formed during the end of the last Ice Age when glacial meltwater created valleys and steeps slopes out of the sedimentary rock and clay soil. The Badlands are desolate terrain of gullies, chasms, sinkholes, and hills. The location of the geological wonder is very remote, in an area that has been traditionally the home of the Siska First Nation People, often known as the Blackfoot tribes. The Badlands’ Guardian is near Medicine Hat in the south-east of Alberta and not far from the border with the USA. The discovery of the dramatic and unusual geographical feature has fascinated many in Canada and beyond. This is a geological wonder that appears to represent an indigenous man’s head in profile. One of the most dramatic has only been revealed in recent years, the Badlands Guardian. Co-curated by Katarina Veljovic and Peta Rake.Canada is a large country with a great many amazing natural sights. The artist would also like to thank Dave Arsenault, Ashley Bedet, Ginger Carlson, Kurtis Denne, Areum Kim, Jeremy Pavka and Stephen Waddell. Rose, Dear is in conjunction with the 2016 Exposure Photography Festival. Walter Phillips Gallery would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Canada Council for the Arts. The character’s identities and purpose are largely concealed, yet the urgency in their stride and the great effort to cloak parts of the image allude to a truth just beyond the frame. The restlessness of this film speaks to a story not yet revealed, where the landscape becomes character, not just setting. The Super8 captures an orangey dawn glow a hidden figure delicately uproots cacti, creating a sinister tableau vivant words melt, but just long enough to read the double entendre, "I'll hang in the guest room" and female apparitions cross the landscape, leaving the image frame as swiftly as they entered. The clips are stretched and pulled as they traverse an unknown interior. Westman’s particular type of image-making is non-linear each scene is disrupted by folding, flattening, interruptions of the image plane. ![]() Westman’s film Rose, Dear (2016) is a series of short vignettes that are rendered through analogue techniques such as Super8 film, illustrated animation and slide-film, alongside digital footage. Inscribed in the corner of the re-photographed apparatus is a text that reads, “it smells of sage out here, like an old friend,” perhaps a nod to the wild prairie sage that grows around Wayne. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Westman’s cucoloris is inverted instead of casting shadow on its subjects, it becomes the subject of the work itself. In the immersive, darkened half of the gallery, is a cucoloris-a device used to shape shadow and light over subjects, commonly used to create intrigue on the faces and bodies of actresses during the film noir period-encased in a lightbox. The other half is darkened, its windows aglow in streetlamp sodium-vapour orange. The first half of the gallery is lighter and displays a chromogenic photograph in its original rose-gold frame, on loan from the hotel lobby. This splitting of language is mirrored in the exhibition space, with the gallery lobby divided in two. With numerous ghost sightings reported, the hotel is rumoured to be haunted the third floor of the Rosedeer is now sealed off and its windows painted black– a frail effort to enclose unruly female spirits.Īs a gesture to these spirits of the third floor, Nicole Kelly Westman alters the name of the Rosedeer hotel, to Rose, Dear. Still functioning today as a hotel, the Rosedeer is a signifier of a community abandoned by industry. In the interior of these Badlands is the almost-deserted hamlet of Wayne, and at its centre, the Rosedeer Hotel. Deemed unsuitable for agriculture due to its moon-like topography, this rich geological area was a coalmining site during the early twentieth century. Northeast of Banff are the rugged plateaus of the Canadian Badlands of Alberta.
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