Nandy Heule

Kishkebus Lake

Cut-outs of waterlily leaves, a digital woodcut of a waterlily and a photopolymer gravure of the same flower I photographed at Kishkebus Lake in Frontenac Park, Ontario are assembled on a matrix that follows the shoreline of the lake.

“In my current practice, I juxtapose plant illustrations from the first secular books printed in Europe in the 1500s with modern images based on my own photos of similar plants. I am exploring how this contrast between ancient and modern plant images captures the timeless, mysterious and often ambiguous relationships between plants and humans. ”