The Ontario Lunatic Asylum, built on these grounds in 1850, was situated between two streams: Asylum Stream, to the the Southwest, and, to the Northeast, Stafford Stream. These watercourses, like Garrison Creek (to which they were tributaries), were submerged beneath the settler colonies which would become Toronto.

I find it significant that in this place, the waters, which in many cultures are associated with healing, have been disappeared. Asylum Stream and Garrison Creek exist now as sewers. I restore them with whispers of charcoal pencils and paper, steps toward healing.

With grateful acknowledgments: Miriam Kingvisser performed "The Brook" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Lost Rivers Toronto; Bomgiizhik (Isaac Murdoch), for his teachings about the relationship between healing people and healing the waters and lands.


Draw Me A River by Lisa Walter

Sonic Explorer. Visual Artist. 
Jan Swinburne is a Canadian visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice makes use of traditional and digital media. Swinburne approaches all media from a painter’s sensibility and this drives her aesthetic. At times her work mutates into large-scale, site-sensitive installations and projects. An experimental approach to art is central to her practice.
 

As a video/sound artist, Swinburne’s interest is oriented to meta-exposure and image degeneration in the form of music/video-painting. Apart from creating original soundtracks, Swinburne collaborates with musician/composers, primarily, Philippe Gerber (JOHN 3:16). 

Jan Swinburne's videos have been screened in Brooklyn/New York City (Experi-MENTAL Festival 6), New Jersey (Filmideo/Index Art Centre) and Washington DC (Auditory Learning w/ BLK TAG)Toronto (Vector festival, Art On The Screens)Art On The Screens (Mississauga), Photophobia (Art Gallery Of Hamilton). In 2015 she signed with Alrealon Musique. 

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Draw Me A River by Lisa Walter

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