Rez Gas is an ongoing body of work in which images of independent, Aboriginal-owned gas stations are faded onto black construction paper.
Raymond Claude Boisjoly
Bio
work
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2012 -
2012captured speech writing back: Toronto is an iteration of The Writing Lesson developed as a large-scale billboard to be displayed on the exterior of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, ON.
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2011The Writing Lesson makes reference to the visual typography of the heavy metal subgenre known as black metal in creating a vernacular mode of writing to illustrate place names in Western Canada and Washington with indigenous origins. Early iterations of black metal music created in Norway sought to resurrect aspects of indigenous pre-Christian spirituality that had been violently displaced in the Christianization of Scandinavia by acts such as the destruction of pagan temples...