Bridge Piece #1

Bridge Piece #1 is a woodcut that was created for a tri-country exhibition in Vancouver in 2017. The print incorporates symbols illustrating our environmental dependence on the Pacific ocean ecology. I postioned small images of natural elements, inserted like stamps into a larger format of the spanning steel bridge. Juxtaposed in an adjacent panel ( a companion piece) and within the same bridge matrix are icons and symbols that denote unity. The three countries of Mexico, China and Canada have a shared reliance on the Pacific Ocean.