Eric Garsonnin

This work is not what’s usually thought of as Beautiful British Columbia.  These are places one sees driving through the Indigenous reserves and hard farming areas of  the dry southern interior.  Different cultures mark this partially wild landscape. The landforms are graspable and can be held in scenes of surfaces mediated by water and wind erosion on the wild rock surging up from below as the Pacific plate pushes under the continental plate in a struggle between tectonic gods.  Lacking the ocean’s moisture which soaks the coastal areas, this interior land supports low growth, hardy trees and twisted, gnarly brush leaving the ground swells and curves visible.

I’m claiming these landscapes as the apogee of two-dimensional representations I can make of valley beauty.  They take me out of body.  Voyages of walking, cycling, motorcycle riding and car trips all culminate here in the Similkameen River Valley in Southern British Columbia where my only duty is to shoot the beauty of massive weight of rock hanging over the delicate flood plain, of landforms carved by erosion and bulldozer blades, of fences dying in the wind and sun.

But this is the last time I assemble landform beauty for viewing.  I’m done.  This is enough.  I wont stop shooting and printing for there is joy here.  But no more presentations.

Eric Garsonnin is a dilettante who goes from topic to topic depending on what ghost from his past is chasing him at the time.  Sometimes he succeeds in imaging the ghost. 

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Contact:  garsonnin@outlook.com
Website: facebook.com/garsonnin


May 6th to May 28th, 2023
Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St, Toronto
Hallway Galleries, 2nd and 3rd floors

Artist Talk and Tour
Saturday, May 13th, 2023
11am & 1pm