Metamorphoses – Janice Victor
Metamorphoses – Janice Victor
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 7pm – 9pm
This project was inspired during a camping trip where I discovered a graveyard of weathered and bleached remains of tree stumps and logs along the south shore of Upper Kananaskis Lake. Feeling the quiet energy, I stopped to reflect upon this place and imagined the stumps as patient creatures awaiting nightfall when they would rise up on their roots and scuttle back to the water until the next dawn.
Metamorphoses is an expression of my attraction to a version of reality that hides more than it shows. It represents a metaphysical understanding of life and spirit that challenges the simplistic binary of animate-inanimate. The weathered trees on that beach are the bones of beings that continue to transform within their environment. There is life in that. Imbuing tree forms with animalistic features blurs the Western distinction of living/non-living while inviting reflection on the life and spirit of natural objects and bodies.
Janice Victor is a third-generation settler from central rural Alberta and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge. Her main work is with Indigenous Health, but she has been advancing an artistic practice, primarily with ceramics and more recently with bronze casting and oil painting. Janice has always been drawn to clay for its tactile malleability and close connection to earth. Her work is largely inspired by the natural world and humanity’s relationship to it.
Date:September 6th, 2025 - October 24th, 2025
Location:Casa - Project Space
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