Fractal Vernacular

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“As it confronts existing Canadian traditions directed at Landscape, Forbes’ work takes up the Group of Seven’s idealization of Nature to invoke the sublime in lieu of addressing their own immediate reality of a landscape tamed by human interests. Forbes uses that tension to propel an exploration of memory and place through depictions of vernacular architecture. Technically perfect surfaces and digitally simulated symmetries invite the viewer into a complication of the relationships that link home to region to landscape.“
– Matt Macintosh, Curator, Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Orillia Museum of Art & History