Artwork
Cadboro Bay: Index to an Incomplete History
- Artist/Creator
- Melinda Mollineaux (Artist)
- Date
- 1998/2021
- ID #
- BG6042
Physical Description
- Medium
- gelatin silver print, vinyl
- Support
- paper
- Dimensions
- –
- Object Description
- This work is made of 8 pinhole camera photographs depicting the shoreline and foliage of Cadboro Bay in Victoria, BC, where Black settlers from San Francisco landed after fleeing the fugitive slave law of 1850. The Bay is also the ancestral land of the Lekwungen Checkonien people, as was known as Sungayka prior to the migrants' arrival. The wall vinyl is about Emancipation Day picnics held there.
8 framed gelatin silver prints
31 x 38.5 x 3.2 cm (BG6042)
31 x 38.5 x 3.2 cm (BG6043)
53.5 x 43.5 x 3.2 cm (BG6044)
53.5 x 43.5 x 3.2 cm (BG6045)
106.5 x 81.5 x 5.5 cm (BG6046)
96.5 x 127 x 5.5 cm (BG6047)
96.5 x 127 x 5.5 cm (BG6048)
Wall vinyl dimensions are variable (BG6049)
Wall vinyl text:
John Craven Jones predicted rain ∙ J.J. Moore spoke in tongues ∙ Elizabeth Leonard realized her betrayal ∙ Rebecca Gibbs tended fires ∙ Sarah Jane Douglas Moses knew she would leave ∙ Willis Bond gave libations ∙ Samuel Booth wanted more ∙ Emma Stark laughed to tears ∙ Samuel Ramsay, who usually worked feverishly, fell asleep ∙ Priscilla Stewart gathered shells for no reason ∙ Nancy Alexander tended to children ∙ Samuel Ringo listened to birdsongs ∙ Nathan Pointer resurrected himself ∙ Fortune Richard scanned the horizon ∙ Sarah Lester dreamed in music ∙ Mifflin Wistar Gibbs’ bones ached ∙ Mary Lowe Barnswell knew ecstasy ∙ Stephen Whitley folded the surface ∙ Cornelius Charity discerned a truth ∙
Sungayka
History
- Collection
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
- Credit Line
- Purchased with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 2021
- Related Exhibitions
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