Sara Maher
In contemplating vastness, one is confronted with the insubstantiality of one's own being. By searching for the self in this vastness what is sometimes discovered is an immensity within.
While on a residency at Lake St Clair in winter 2010 I began a series of works exploring this terrain. In responding to the boundaries of enormous spaces (shoreline and horizon, darkness and dawn, sound and silence), I encountered physiological and psychological thresholds of the self, namely the limits of my senses - seeing and hearing, and my own fear. It is the tension between these elements and the reverence of nature's immensity that informs my work.
If there exists a border-line between such mental and physical terrain, it wavers and trembles: it is soft, with vague shapes and edges both devolving toward and evolving from nothingness; it reveals itself through ambiguity and contradiction.
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