Lisa Walker | Migration Patterns

Home is a sensory experience. It is a precious collection we each have in our memories that has shaped who we are. There is no single place or item, but rather a collaboration of details stored inside our brains.We are a species bent on the notion of home. We fight wars for it, we work crappy jobs to build it, and sometimes work just as hard to forget it. We all leave home, we all find home, and we all return, each with our unique migration patterns. Migration Patterns is a solo photo exhibition consisting of various photographic renderings of what “home” looks and feels like.

Lisa Walker is a photo-based artist born in the small town of Kitimat in Northern BC, Canada; she is currently living in Vancouver. She holds her BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University. Lisa examines identity, self-representation, history and race through her artwork. She displays her inner thoughts and personal struggles through a visual language, which often results in images from her daily life, images of herself, and of her family. As a half Haisla First Nations and half British female, Lisa attempts to comment on binaries, barriers, and explore duality in identity. Often her work is a very personal comment on how it feels to learn about the histories of her family, the history of Canada. Photography offers Lisa the chance to record each moment, and to archive her own history. She attempts to bridge unspoken gaps, to reach out through imagery in order to encourage others to relate, to remember and to create dialogue.

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Adanac Park Lodge | Forget me Not: Art and Creativity

Adanac Park Lodge is one of the facilities run by the Little Mountain Residential Care and Housing Society. The artists who participate in the art therapy program are psychiatric, dementia and Alzheimer patients. The first public exhibition outside of the facility has allowed art to be a means of healing for the residents, furthering them to more creativity, and also reducing stigma and labels related to mental health. The works are a handful of accumulated self-expression over a period of three years, using simple tools of pencil, markers, chalk, and oil pastels. Drawing on neutral influences like mountains, food, nature, home, familiar objects, flowers, the collection represents a sense of universal well being and quiet, potential hope. Each of the 14 artists has created from his/her most natural being - without deliberation - producing art in its purest state.