After The Picnic
Started in 2015, this ongoing series is a visual record of the number of black bears destroyed and the number of bears sent for rehabilitation on a monthly basis in BC. This information is purely based on BC Wildlife Conservation stats reporting the number of black bears destroyed on a monthly basis. You can find the stats here.
Each compostable paper plate is titled with the month, the year, the number of bears destroyed (shown here in black), and the number of bears sent for rehabilitation (shown here in gold) in the given month. Each plate is finished with charcoal - you literally cannot interact with the piece without getting your hands dirty, just as you literally cannot produce waste without impacting wildlife in some way.
*The collection shown here was initially exhibited in a solo show at Seymour Art Gallery in 2017. The ever changing collection has been exhibited in other venues in different formats.
In 2022 the series was on display at Beaty Biodiversity Museum:
