Art at the Faculty Club
What is land without human – and what is human without land?
This digital project seeks to map the approximate modern-day locations depicted in the paintings owned by the Faculty Club with an ecocritical approach, creating a dialogue between the natural environment immortalized in the paintings, literature and geography.
"God gave the World to Men in Common; but since he gave it to them for their benefit, and the greatest Conveniences of Life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated."
— John Locke
As transportative as Harris’s work is, imbued with religiosity, grounding his influential paintings in the greater process of unlearning what we think we know about the Canadian wilderness might just be the best way to enjoy it in a modern context.
