BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//YourSite//Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:29030-0@www.visitcalgary.com DTSTAMP:20260630T111646Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260629T000000 RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20261018T235959Z EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260629 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260630 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260706 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260707 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260713 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260714 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260720 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260721 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260727 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260728 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260803 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260804 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260810 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260811 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260817 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260818 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260824 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260825 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260831 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260901 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260907 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260908 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260914 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260915 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260921 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260922 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260928 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20260929 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20261005 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20261006 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20261012 EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20261013 SUMMARY:Johnathan Onyschuk: Old Growth DESCRIPTION:Project Space Old Growth emerges from a persistent image that a ppears across time and geography: a human face materializing from\, or inte rtwined with\, plant matter. From architectural carving motifs in Medieval churches across Europe or in temple complexes ranging from 2nd Century Hatr a to 8th Century Rājasthān\, to illuminated manuscripts\, stained glass\, costuming\, mosaics\, or metalwork\, the recurrence of faces in plant form has long existed as a human expression. In the present\, spanning workshop s and gardens\, as well as hobbyist\, artistic\, and folk traditions\, the impulse repeats: to bring together the human and the vegetal.\n\nThis insta llation begins with that repetition. Johnathan Onyschuk has accumulated a c ollection of anonymous “spirit carvings\,” or traditional folk art piec es depicting human faces (often bearded\, weathered\, and wizened) cut into pieces of wood. He has subsequently merged these found sculptures into com posite basswood reliefs. The individual faces dissolve into one another\, a nd accumulate into dense\, swirling patterned surfaces where features emerg e and recede. What comes together is not a singular figure\, but an assembl y of characters: an entanglement of individual gestures\, histories\, and e xpressions held within wood.\n\n Old Growth invites a speculative question : why does the human face return\, again and again\, to this material? One answer might lie in a search for recognition. Since human and plant life sh are a distant evolutionary kinship\, could these carvings be understood les s as acts of representation or of an attempt to capture likeness\, but inst ead as efforts to re-establish contact with our botanical relatives? What i f the human face is not imposed onto the wood\, but discovered within it? C ould the act of recovering these faces actually offer a form of communicati on – or even of reunion?\n\nhttps://www.visitcalgary.com/events/johnathan -onyschuk-old-growth\n\nhttps://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition/johnathan-on yschuk-old-growth/ LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 4th Floor\, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E.\, Calgary\ , Ab\, T2G 0H7 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR