Dan Hudson – Horai

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Dan Hudson, “Three Sisters and Earth," 2021

lenticular photo, 34” x 80”

Dan Hudson – Horai

Join us on Saturday, December 4th at 3:30 pm for an Artist Talk with internationally recognized Canadian Artist, Dan Hudson. He will be discussing his practice and process and take questions after.

Opening Reception, Saturday, November 27th from 2 to 5 pm.

Artist in Attendance.

(Must show proof of vaccination & photo ID to attend this event. Masks are mandatory.)

In ancient Greek mythology, the Horai are twelve goddesses who preside over the heavenly bodies that create days, seasons, and other natural divisions of time. In Japanese mythology, Horai is a legendary land beyond time. Every human culture throughout history has endeavoured to understand the nature of time; something that eludes us to this day.

Dan Hudson’s introspective art works are his personal contemplations on the subject of time. He creates ritualistic processes as a way to interface with astrological cycles and their corresponding rhythms in the landscape. His art works are artifacts of these processes. They are offerings to the idea of the Horai. 

​Dan Hudson's art practice traverses scientific research, documentary narratives, and personal journal. He thinks of his work as a form visual anthropology.  His observations and research are distilled into a variety of different media, including photography, video, painting, video, sculpture and installation. 

Essentially, Dan is a project-based artist. To begin a project, he first conceives of an idea then he determines what medium is best suited to realize that idea. The art Dan makes are artifacts of the process rather than the goal of the process. 

Many of Dan's works result from rituals that he perform. Often, he devises sets of actions that are connected with astronomical cycles. For example, some recent projects involved filming the exact same scene once a week for a year as a way to observe and document the transformations in the landscape caused by the Earth’s planetary movements around the sun.

Dan tries to formulate procedures that traverse the gap between contemporary culture and the natural world. It is at this intersection, that he finds inspiration for his art projects.