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Sky Divers

My project is entitled “Family Life Instalments.” With five kids at home, age ranges 5 to 14, my partner Lily and I have had to be pretty creative with how we fill the time to keep the kids occupied. And we have a lot of material to offer a glimpse into a “family life” during these times. (If any one, in fact, wants to see!) The work consists of digital photographs and art of physical objects found in our home. For example, the first file is a year of parchment paper baking, all of the photos I’ve taken of a year’s worth of baking with parchment, and the second file is some of the window art Lily and the kids have done, using glue, food colouring, watercolour and painter’s tape. All work is done in our home.

Date

January 1, 1970

Rights Statement

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Full Metadata for Sky Divers

Type

digital image

Subject

digital images

Title

Sky Divers

Identifier

01052022-1i

Description

A digital canvas of small photographs interrupted by patches of white. The photographs, so small they seem to pixelate the image, depict the sky at all times of day under all weather conditions. In the white between the images are colorful silhouettes of skydivers with their parachutes billowing above them, surrounded by squares of sky.

Temporal Coverage

January 1, 1970

Date Submitted

January 1, 1970

Language

English

Spatial Coverage

New Brunswick, Canada -66.750183 46.500283

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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