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(1080) Diane Lavoie - Angel Glacier at Plötzensee

290

About this artwork

For my piece, which would end up being called, Angel Glacier at Plötzensee, I received the page;
Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia
Volume 3
The story of the world and its peoples
In Canada’s Greatest National park
In the beautiful illustration, one can see Mt. Edith Cavell and Angel Glacier, in Jasper Park, Alberta Canada. Being a landscape artist of Canadian ancestry, I was thrilled to receive this image as my starting point. I chose to focus on Angel Glacier, which ultimately became a stand-in for glaciers in general. I created a large-scale, sewn fabric, interpretation of the ice behemoth, which I then photographed in three different forests, in and around Berlin, Germany. I chose one of the images and mounted it on glacial blue paper I had made myself.
The fabric piece was installed near an old cemetery next to the lake Plötzensee, in Berlin. The glacier is somewhat incongruous next to the bright yellow foliage, though intended to suggest that glaciers had been here once, too. In fact, I recall reading that Berlin was one of the furthest southern points, where glaciers could be found during the last ice age.
While making the piece I looked at old and recent photos of Mt. Edith Cavell and Angel Glacier, which has shrunk significantly. Through the handling and manipulation of traditionally craft materials like fabric and paper and photographing it in a forest, I was reflecting on humankind’s handling and manipulation of the natural environment.

About Diane


I create large and small scale fabric collages and installations, depicting forests trees and other landscapes.

I collect fabric pieces, old clothes and domestic textiles (towels, sponges, etc.) from wherever I am working on a particular project. Sometimes I use plain fabric pieces, other times I use the patterned parts. Scraps are machine sewn or glued, or sometimes both, to make painting like tapestries. With my installations, the finished fabric piece is often installed in a specific environment, such as an actual forest. Recently, Ive started to consider the photos of the fabric landscapes in actual landscapes to be the final manifestation of the work.

I am interested in environmentalism and conservation in the classical sense but also in looking at and expressing a more personal relationship with ones natural environment. I am interested in how we, as humans, interact with and view our natural environment. Do we see it as a back drop to our lives, something we visit, or an integral part of our existence?

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Diane was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:

Volume 3
The story of the world and its peoples
In Canada’s Greatest National park.
Artist:
Diane Lavoie
Medium:
fabric collage installation, photograph, handmade paper
Dimensions:
A4
Price:
290 EUR