Thomas Farmer [CV]
PO BOX 703 Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada
studio@fracturescapes.art
THE LIVING FRACTURE
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.
PROVENANCE AND STEWARDSHIP
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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Encounter, Understanding, and Continuing Connection
Fracture-Scaping brings a physical part of a landscape into public view. Through exhibitions, public displays and the official registry, each work connects artistic interpretation with its material origins and documented ecological, cultural and historical context.
THE PHYSICAL ENCOUNTER
A Fracture-Scape remains both timber and interpreted landscape. Movement and directional light reveal changing relationships between bark, grain, fracture geometry, colour and depth.
The original work offers the first encounter; its registry identity opens the history behind it.
FROM OBJECT TO PLACE
The registry preserves each work’s available acquisition history, material observations, studio development and photographic record. By Nature works carry the complete geographic provenance and chain of custody required by that classification.
Where documented, connections to communities, land use, stewardship and regional history give the material cultural and historical relevance. Public display allows viewers to encounter a tangible part of that place alongside its interpreted landscape and recorded history. Uncertainties remain acknowledged.
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC DISPLAYS
Both Genesis and By Nature works can support education, conversation and conservation awareness. Each is presented according to its history and artistic merits.
Expedition and methodology records extend the encounter, explaining material restraint, recovery decisions and why some fractures remain in place or never become completed works.
Individuals and organizations acquiring a work are encouraged to display it publicly, where appropriate, with access to its registry record. Each new audience can continue the conversation around its landscape, cultural and historical connections, and conservation potential.
PARTICIPATION AND CONSERVATION
Those who resonate with a work, its source landscape or a conservation organization identified in the registry are encouraged to contribute through registry donation links or the organization’s own website.
Across both collections, voluntary contributions can establish and extend a work’s conservation legacy. These are additional to the mandatory ten-percent return from commercial By Nature sales. Purchasing an artwork is not required to participate.
A CONTINUING PUBLIC LIFE
The ambition is for each Fracture-Scape to become a lasting landscape artifact, carrying its material origins, artistic interpretation and documented ecological, cultural and historical connections forward throughout its life.
Successive displays introduce those connections to new audiences. Recorded exhibitions and stewardship become part of the history the work carries, while the registry allows discovery and reciprocal contributions to continue beyond the exhibition.