Quest Of The Folk

An exhibition engaging the tourist industry and the “folk-ification” of the population of Nova Scotia. In these carved sculptures we worked with the idea of creating a new kind of regional symbol: a subject that creates itself from within the material form of the tourist representation that contains it. For example, a beaver, a signifier for the Nova Scotian as tourist commodity, carves itself as a subject at the same time as it redefines the “natural” tree pedestal upon which it sits.