Rocks

Rocks are the record keepers and storytellers of the earth. By attuning our beings to the stillness of rocks, we hear the stories they contain. 

In the 18th-century slave ships were constructed along the Atlantic coast in what is now Canada. They were ballasted with rocks from the area’s shoreline. When the ships sailed to West Africa the rocks were dumped onto the shore and humans, their intended cargo, were loaded into the stifling cargo holds. The ships have dissolved into the sea and the people in their holds are no more but the rocks have not forgotten. 

Rocks, 2021 to ongoing
Black and White photography on vinyl lightbox
38" x 26" x 1.5", edition of 3

Exhibition History

  • OtherWorld, University of Toronto Art Museum, Toronto, ON. 2024

  • Unearth, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON. 2024

  • Rocks was shown at the Visual Arts Centre Clarington as part of Fossilized Sunshine, 2021 and at Art Toronto in 2021

 

 

Rocks, 2023
Black and White photography on vinyl
Second edition of 3
Rocks, 2023
Black and White photography on vinyl
Third edition of 3
Rocks, Otherworld

Photography by Toni Hafkenscheid

 
 
We would like to acknowledge:

City of Toronto

Funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. Ontario Arts Council (OAC)