The Last Tasmanians/Badger, Manitoba  1990

115" x 118" installed. b/w photograph, colour photograph, w/c by Greg Curnoe

Collection of the National Gallery of Canada

This is a piece made up of three parts. They are: 

a) A b/w photograph made from a reproduction of an archival photograph from 1858 of what is supposedly the last "pure-blooded" Tasmanians in existence.

b) A colour photograph made from a postcard of my father as a child with his mother, father, and older brother just after they had emmigrated from London, England to Badger, Manitoba. A phrase from Marguerite Duras' novel The Lover which is printed over both the b/w and the colour photographs. 

c) A large framed watercolour by London, Ontario artist Greg Curnoe in which he has rubber-stamped the text I asked him to do.