Security
Charcoal, pencil, pencil crayon, and water-based ink on paper
Artist: Karen Boyles
This project explores our complex relationship with the environment. The work investigates the cultural, political, historical, and personal aspects of our reciprocal relationship with the environment. A central theme to the work is the relationship between violence and the environment. The viewer is presented with a broadened perspective on violence in relation to the environment: environments built by violence, violence in security, violence in order, violence found in the banal. The materials employed play a fundamental role in the representation of these ideas.
Artist: Karen Boyles
Karen Boyles is a third-year Studio Arts Major at Concordia University, a community activist, gardener, and woodworker. Her interest in history, social and environmental justice, and the arts drives her to articulate her concerns through a visual language. Specifically, she employs a combination of relief printmaking techniques and traditional drawing materials to create visual environments that reflect the conflicts found within our own.
This installation was presented at the Study In Action Undergraduate and Community Research Conference
(March 2011, Montreal).