Cantwell's Fence - Cape Spear Romantic
"No escape is possible for the non-figurative artist; he must march towards the consequence of his art."
Piet Mondrian
"Art is essentially about the memory and that is necessarily something which deals with how we encode experience and how that experience can be relived."
Guido Molinari
One would expect to find a fence demarcating the most easterly point of North America. It has taken on some reincarnations owing to rot and deterioration, restoration, and eventually a replica of the one present when Cape Spear was a working lighthouse and home to the light keepers family. It is currently being repaired as a result of damage incurred from a hurricane.
Realistically, the fence is pristine white, with the unseen light house providing the traditional red colour for contrast. However, a fence is an ideal surface to mimic the hard edge abstraction of the likes of Guido Molinari and his peers. It can bring life to the wooden surface and evoke emotions suggesting the roots of modernism and utilitarianism.
Where once the fence may have been devised to protect the light keeper's children while playing, or animals from falling over the cliff, it is now a barrier for tourists who make the long trek up the hill to this magnificent point of land and to the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland.
Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS
Piet Mondrian
"Art is essentially about the memory and that is necessarily something which deals with how we encode experience and how that experience can be relived."
Guido Molinari
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| Cantwell's Fence, Cape Spear Primary, oil on canvas, 38"x59", Steven Rhude |
One would expect to find a fence demarcating the most easterly point of North America. It has taken on some reincarnations owing to rot and deterioration, restoration, and eventually a replica of the one present when Cape Spear was a working lighthouse and home to the light keepers family. It is currently being repaired as a result of damage incurred from a hurricane.
Realistically, the fence is pristine white, with the unseen light house providing the traditional red colour for contrast. However, a fence is an ideal surface to mimic the hard edge abstraction of the likes of Guido Molinari and his peers. It can bring life to the wooden surface and evoke emotions suggesting the roots of modernism and utilitarianism.
Where once the fence may have been devised to protect the light keeper's children while playing, or animals from falling over the cliff, it is now a barrier for tourists who make the long trek up the hill to this magnificent point of land and to the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland.
Steven Rhude, Wolfville, NS
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