Broadcast Hill
The Paskapoo slopes, on Calgary’s western ridge, house Broadcast Hill with CTV’s television station and transmission tower, and Canada Olympic Park, with its ski hills and jumps. The complete panorama of the tower and slopes were the view from my work-space and the inspiration for this series, which was created between November, 2023 and April, 2024.
‘Broadcast Hill’, the series, consists of 283 drawings, 14" x 5 1/4", mixed media, on Stonehenge paper. A simple paper template was constructed to represent the hill. At the beginning of the series, the template was placed in the lower third of the paper, with ample space left above for Calgary’s skies to entertain. The same template was used in all 283 drawings. It will become apparent, however, as the viewer travels through the series, that the template shape appears to shift, reposition itself, multiply, roll, momentarily recompose itself, and then go to pieces altogether.
In this series, the slopes are the conduit illustrating the conceptualization of an event experienced in real time. The series is a stream of visual letters to ‘Peace and Forgiveness’. Their purpose served to kick start my return to drawing, my return to art, after some 25 years of miscalculations and life circumstances causing Art anhedonia. These drawings are visual confessions from a state of mind, in a stationary position.