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Alberta, Canada, T0L 0H0
Fracture-Scaping begins with naturally found wood fractures. I read their ridges, recesses, and planes as fields of landscape possibility, using chromatic interpretation to reveal a composition guided by the fracture. The fracture remains the governing form and a participant in authorship.
PRESERVED FORM, PAINTED INTERPRETATION
Interpretation remains confined to naturally fractured surfaces. Unfractured exterior wood and bark are preserved, and expressive fracture geometry is not mechanically reshaped. Minimal preparation is permitted only on the horizontal base plane when required for stable presentation.
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The practice preserves each work’s available connection to its source, while By Nature works require documented geographic provenance and chain of custody.
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5-FSG-2026
Acrylic on naturally fractured wood
Completed - Spring 2026
Dimensions - 6 3/16 × 3 3/4 in (base × height)
Acquired - Spring 2025 · near [Kimberley, British Columbia]
Authorization - Wood gifted by previous custodian
Expedition Data - No expedition record
Landscape Context - East Kootenay Interior Douglas-fir forest
Conservation Contribution - N/A (NFS)
Stewardship Context - TBA
Tectonic Divide unfolds as a low, five-part landscape arranged around a vivid central lake. Green ridgelines, pale exposed slopes and blue waterways travel across the separated fragments, allowing the eye to reconstruct a continuous terrain without concealing its physical divisions.
The components permit limited reconfiguration, shifting the relationships among the lake, surrounding heights and descending channels. Although physically separate, they remain one registered work: a modular landscape whose divisions function as both material history and compositional form.
Tectonic Divide was acquired in spring 2025 as part of a group of naturally fractured timber gifted from private stock in Kimberley, British Columbia, before the current field-documentation protocol was established. Its original harvest date, precise recovery location, recovery authorization and fracture event were not documented, and no in situ recovery photograph survives. Because current By Nature provenance standards cannot be established, the work remains within the Genesis collection. No borate treatment was applied.
The material entered the studio as a single naturally fractured fragment. During handling, a fall activated existing structural weaknesses and separated it into five components. One fragment was initially developed as an independent miniature; only after the remaining pieces revealed a coherent shared terrain was the work resolved as a unified five-part composition. The secondary fracture was retained rather than reconstructed, preserving the event as part of the work’s material and artistic history.
The work was completed using craft-grade acrylic, an isolation coat, matte spray finish and selectively applied gloss and matte media. Available [EARLY STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHS] document the shared gifted material after acquisition and during studio selection; they are not in situ recovery photographs.