Everything must go, 1994

87” x 56”

Two colour photographs, oil painting by Sheila Ayearst

Collection of the Kitchener /Waterloo Art Gallery

This work is made up of 3 sections. The text is from The Lover by Marguerite Duras.

a) A photographic reproduction of the didactic panel for Sum over Histories, a survey exhibition of my work organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1992. The colour has been changed and the text has been blurred.

b) An oil painting by Sheila Ayearst of a deserted road in Badger, Manitoba. The words EVERYTHING MUST GO are painted in the sky above. My father’s parents, my father and his brother emigrated to Badger from London, England around 1914.

c) A photograph of an early photograph of Lacock Abbey, England taken by William Henry Fox Talbot.