Rhoda Rosenfeld, from the Maps of the World series, 1977, lithograph on paper. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Artwork
from the Maps of the World series
- Artist/Creator
- Rhoda Rosenfeld (Artist)
- Date
- 1977
- ID #
- BG5996
Physical Description
- Medium
- ink
- Support
- paper
- Dimensions
- –
- Object Description
- "Maps of the World started with a roll of negatives (among 25 others) that I’d been keeping in a plastic envelope in the summer of 1970. I spent the summer living in a hut (a sauna bath) on Long Beach on Vancouver Island. When I got back to the city and started to develop the negatives, this one, as I stood in the darkroom reeling it onto the spool, felt damp and sticky but I decided to develop it anyway. So this iconography arrived purely by chance and blew my mind for a long time with its metaphorical messages. Keith Wallace described it most perfectly, I think, in an essay he wrote for a show of paintings I had at the Contemporary Art Gallery in 1992:
The intended pictures of sandy beaches, rolling surf and flocks of birds lay obscured behind a screen of ghostly biomorphic shapes, the after-effect of a chemical transformation in the photographic emulsion. Visually, these shapes vacillated between the microscopic and the macroscopic, between lesion-like body scars and aerial mappings of the earth shot from outer space."
Rhoda Rosenfeld, from an email exchange, November 2020
History
- Collection
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
- Credit Line
- Gift of Carole Itter, 2020
- Related Exhibitions
- Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions
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