Swatchbook

This is my swatchbook — 26 paintings on paper with accompanying letter cut-outs documenting the colours of my alphabet.

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Book of Scents

I want to tell you your own stories — perhaps even the ones you've forgotten altogether. This book engages scent to unlock memories. 16 small bottles containing fragrant objects form chapters that are read with your sense of smell.

2003 | 31 x 31 x 12.5 cm painted marble, 16 glass bottles

Chapters: jackfish, picnic, clean, lake, bush, empty, gravel road, shelter, smudge, treat, inflatable, truck stop, fire circle, dirt, offering

Letters from Louise

Louise is my mother. She lives in another city in a different time zone. I call her on the telephone and my words are lost, but she writes to me and hers are preserved. I have contained them in zip lock bags, like bounty from a garden and fashioned a binding for them in Canada Post red.

2003| 67 x 45.5 x 45.5 cm painted wood, metal, plastic with letters written by Louise Hewson