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ART
MAYA FUHR
THESE WORKS CULMINATE IN AN INTERESTING PAS- TICHE OF CANADIANA. HOW HAS WORKING THE WAY YOU HAVE ON THIS PROJECT ALTERED YOUR PER- SPECTIVE ON THE CANADIAN ART SCENE?
“I made these sculptures overlooking the Georgian Bay in Parry Sound, Ontario. You can’t get much more Canadian than that. Not including First Nation’s and marginalized communities art that existed longer than any Tom Thompson painting, but the white Canadian ‘art scene’ got put on the map with landscape paintings by the Group of 7. It’s funny that similar bird and cricket sounds and imperishable land- scapes act as a backdrop for this body of work. During this unprecedented time, I’ve gone back to the basics of my crea- tive process—being like a kid outdoors, sculpting and mould- ing with no time constraint.
TELL US ABOUT THE SCULPTURES YOU CREATED FOR THIS AUCTION AND YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS?
“I created a high heel and a boot sculpture made of hardware materials: plaster, foam, stone speckle paint, varnish. The boot is inspired by Vejas’s textural A20 and Aldanondoyfdez Dissected Cloud Boots. The other shoe is a creamy coffee col- our, versatile and comfy. An abstract version of a shoe you’d find from a brand like L’intervalle. I haven’t worn heels in months, and I sort of miss it, so I started drawing and sculpt- ing shoes during quarantine. I photographed the high heel with Number Sixxteen bow tights.”
Maya Fuhr, Olive, 2020. Coloured Plaster, Foam, Varnish, 5.5 x 15.5”.
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