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Subject to Change

subject to change

a thesis project by Colleen MacIsaac

  • subject to change: a thesis
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EXPERIMENT 23: Community of Heroes
EXPERIMENT 20: Ask Steph
EXPERIMENT 71: Under the Ice
EXPERIMENT 70: An Attentive Audience (Dances for Charlie)
EXPERIMENT 69: The Bad Thesis
EXPERIMENT 68: the colour of the sky right now
EXPERIMENT 67: flutter
EXPERIMENT 66: carrying you
EXPERIMENT 65: sink or swim or something else
EXPERIMENT 64: it will rain either way
EXPERIMENT 63: On Thin Ice
EXPERIMENT 62: UPDRIP (1-5)
EXPERIMENT 61: all of my fears (right now)
the water remembers but it will not miss us
EXPERIMENT 60: The Water Remembers But It Will Not Miss Us 
EXPERIMENT 59: Popcorn Percussion
EXPERIMENT 58: Tomato seeds on paper towel on circular mirror on table in sunbeam (with thanks to katie and rena and dorian and linda and dan and noella and jordyn and tim and gay and heather and matt and jenny and the rest)
EXPERIMENT 57: tremble, tremble
footprints in frosted grass
EXPERIMENT 56: Frost Trail
a person standing in a parking garage, lit from behind
EXPERIMENT 55: observational collection 6: the parking garage
two people sit on a couch with bowls of porridge. they look neutrally at the camera
EXPERIMENT 54: Claire and Henry React to My Thesis Show Title Ideas 
EXPERIMENT 53: the meteor sighting 
a streetscape with raindrops creating patterns on the sidewalk
EXPERIMENT 52: gottingen street: rainy day
EXPERIMENT 51: THINK ABOUT OUTER SPACE 2
EXPERIMENT 50: observational collection 5: west ironbound
EXPERIMENT 49: NOTHING REMAINS STILL
EXPERIMENT 48: Traps on Ironbound 
a rock that says now on it on the beach
EXPERIMENT 47: NOW
orange lichen on a grey rock
EXPERIMENT 46: Ironbound Found Sounds
tiny rocks and shells on a ledge
EXPERIMENT 45: I can’t stop myself collecting
a series of white plinths at different heights
EXPERIMENT 44: Untitled Collection Projects 1-7
two pictures of many white gloves arranged in a grid - on the left they are clean on on the right they are covered with various stains, rock, and dirt
EXPERIMENT 43: Untitled Glove Project 1
a group of people in masks standing in a circle in a white room
EXPERIMENT 42: Gathering at Gathering
a small collection of pointed rocks sits in a gallery
EXPERIMENT 41: Gathering 
protein foam on the side of a rock
EXPERIMENT 40: observational collection 4: nichol’s lake
EXPERIMENT 39: The Swim Back
a peach coloured hand covered in traces of protein foam in front of a river
EXPERIMENT 38: Foam sketch 2
the shadow of a hand over a dollop of protein foam on a rock next to a river
EXPERIMENT 37: Foam sketch 1
2 orange and 2 yellow waterlogged pills on a wooden board
EXPERIMENT 36: soft pills to swallow
white feet on orange-brown sand/mud. footprints the same size are in front leading there.
EXPERIMENT 35: storytelling with my father
a large rock sitting in pools of saltwater across long mudflats at low tide. the sky is blue with purple and white clouds, and the rock has barnacles and seaweed attached to it
EXPERIMENT 34: observational collection 3: five islands mud flats, low tide
the words 'soon gone' written in mud over a wide plain of low tide red mud flats.
EXPERIMENT 33: SOON GONE
the words 'all that we have is right now' scratched in mud on the ocean floor with the tide far out. a shadow of a person's head and hand can be seen at the bottom of the image.
EXPERIMENT 32: All That We Have Is Right Now
A person in a white hat and bug shirt with denim cutoffs and rubber boots sticks a shovel into a cart full of dirt in front of a pile of dirt, sticks, and foliage
EXPERIMENT 31: The Mound (Angella’s land art)
a person in a black hoodie with teal hair and glasses standing in a kitchen holding a handmade spinning wheel.
EXPERIMENT 30: Thesis Wheel
a bicycle half-rusted missing its front wheel, attached to an arcing metal bike rack, with garbage and leaves collected beneath it.
EXPERIMENT 29: Quinpool Eddies
a doorway
EXPERIMENT 28: across the thresholds
text saying ' GETTING HOME FROM HERE ' COLLEEN MACISAAC' in orange highlighted black text over a photo of a pair of boots at the top of a stone staircase, seen from above
EXPERIMENT 27: Getting Home From Here
a person walking in a circle in front of a beach on a sunny april day
EXPERIMENT 26: Place names chant (Kjipuktuk/We’kwaltijk/Kepe’k/Elpaktwitk)
power lines crisscrossing over a pale blue sky with pink clouds and bare tree branches reaching up from centre
EXPERIMENT 25: External Monologues
a person lying face down in a patch of snow on a rocky beach
EXPERIMENT 24: winter breaks
EXPERIMENT 22: THINK ABOUT OUTER SPACE 1
EXPERIMENT 21: The Wednesday Sessions
EXPERIMENT 19: White (paint) Maps 2: A Point of Land
EXPERIMENT 18: White Paint Maps 1
EXPERIMENT 17: I AM HERE TO PESTER YOU
a boot stepping on the sidewalk over a diagonal crack.
EXPERIMENT 16: Gazing Down
a snow-covered boot stepping forward into deep snow.
EXPERIMENT 15: Extemporized pace poem
a figure dressed in white holding a lantern in a dark snowy field at night
EXPERIMENT 14: Night Walks 1
A strange cocoon made of old to-do lists
EXPERIMENT 13: BECOMING (a productive member of society)
a drawing of a map on white in purple, blue, teal, and offwhite.
EXPERIMENT 12: Memory Traces 1-4 (context)
a sky at dusk over a bridge above the Halifax Harbour. The dark grey-blue clouds fade to a thin strip of pale yellow near the horizon.
EXPERIMENT 11: Embodied Cartography: Building Resilience in Climate Crisis: a failed SSHRC grant proposal
a picture of a figure with short hair leaning over a glowing piece of paper with streaks of water and ink across it. the picture is dark and moody. the shadow of a second person is seen behind the paper, and an orange light glows illuminating the scene
EXPERIMENT 10: stay and see what happens
a left tree with dark green foliage stands on the side of a sloping green hill next to a street with buildings along it. The sky is blue and the tree casts a shadow on the short-cropped grass of the hill it is on.
EXPERIMENT 9: observational collection 3: studio tree (kuowaqe’jk / big pine hill / citadel hill)
EXPERIMENT 8: a moment of coming across a starfish on the sidewalk
EXPERIMENT 7: observational collection 2: redlight greenlight
EXPERIMENT 6: untitled (light paintings with excel) 1-10
A white person with short dark hair wearing a black tunic draws with acrylic marker on a window with a projector lighting around them. The photo is taken from a dark outdoor street looking in.
EXPERIMENT 4: cartographies of being there (1-3) 
dark blue water tousled by the wind
EXPERIMENT 5: observational collection 1: kejimkujik
EXPERIMENT 3: Kejimkujik swatches
A picture of Lake Kejimkujik on a sunny summer day - blue sky is reflected in the water and a crop of green frees above a shoreline mirror themselves below.
EXPERIMENT 2: Singing the landscape 1 (Kejimkujik)
EXPERIMENT 1: Radical Access to Space & Things
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