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This
was
the
Artist
Biography
located
by
the
Carol
Wainio
exhibit
at
the
Montreal
Museum
of
Fine
Arts
when
the
project
was
done.
(Oct
2015)
She
uses
the
slow,
complicated
and
historically
loaded
medium
of
painting
to
create
both
visceral
and
visually
discursive
spaces,
places
where
representations
of
past
and
present
may
meet
along
the
road.
Her
work
reflects
a
process
of
drawing
together
diverse
references:
Western
History
and
emerging
economies,
scarcity
and
excess,
long
ago
and
far
awayall
expressed
through
carious
forms
of
visual
representation,
encompassing
everything
from
high
art
to
the
vernacularare
explored
and
reimagined
in
painting.Historical
illustration,
early
advertisements
that
brought
folk
tale
characters
from
the
farmers
field
of
the
18th
century
into
emerging
cities,
archival
or
contemporary
photographs,
and
childrens
drawings
all
comingle
in
a
variety
of
paint
grounds
to
probe
and
restage
visual
narratives
of
transformation,
desire
and
insecurity.
These
are
uneasy,
layered
spaces
created
to
question,
lament
and
wonder.
More
recently,
the
centuries-old
trope
in
folk
tales
of
children
abandoned
in
the
woods
by
cruel
parents
is
explored
at
a
time
when
the
technological
speeding-up
of
lie
together
with
the
more
fundamental
changes
to
the
physical
ground
of
our
climate
and
environment
point
towards
an
inability
to
engage
in
the
natural
world
or
imagine
and
preserve
it
for
future
generations.
Some
paintings
make
use
of
early
tableau
vivantversions
of
fairy
tales
like
Le
Petit
Poucet
(Hop
O
My
Thumb)
or
Hansel
and
Gretel.
Abandoned
historical
figures
encounter
chocolate
tornadoes,
birds
or
animals
in
transformation,
suggesting
real
rather
tan
story
erosions
of
a
deeper
narrative,
like
the
regularly
recurring
seasons
(replaced
by
extreme
and
less
predictable
weather
events).
Contemporary
seasonal
markers,
childrens
drawings
of
the
weather,
seasons,
trees,
or
oil
rigs,
archival
illustration
or
later
photographic
reiterations,
allegorical
animals
or
birds
in
the
process
of
transformation/
hybridization,
all
combine
in
unstable
settings
rendered
in
point
to
evoke
a
kind
of
elegiac
wonder
at
the
nature
of
representation,
the
past
and
an
uncertain
future.