subject to change – a thesis project by Colleen MacIsaac

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

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