Jan Wade | Made In Canada

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Jan Wade, "Home and Native Land, Made in Canada Memory Jug," 2022

Courtesy of the Gallery.

Opening Reception December 3, 12-2pm

"I am including a small as yet number of sculpture-poems from a series called “Made in Canada”. The phrase ...”Made In Canada”....carries historical significance. As a child I haunted thrift stores...Church sales and always looked over the tourist sections of bus and train stations... hotels etc. There...you would find Totem poles carved in China...small African carved pieces from various parts of Africa....keychains...bowls...plaques...all representing some form of tourist iconic imagery. I would play with my small collections or pose them in incongruous positions or groupings and found they spoke to one another...I would make up small scenarios...But no matter where these pieces came from they served one purpose...the Tourist industry on a global level...an industry born of it’s Colonial parentage.

This is what I am attempting with these pieces....I am simplifying and trying to allow them their own dialogue....And of course we make up our own dialogues as well...just as I did as a child....No matter what their origins...they are remade ...by me...here...Made In Canada."

- Jan Wade