Backward Feet

One thing I've noticed about our evolving theme in this project is the prevalence of memory in the work of our Australian counterparts.  A creature with backward feet might be imagined as a time traveller or an anthropomorphized memory, walking backwards in time.  Along this same trajectory, our professor, Susan Shantz, began our (Canadian students now) response to the work of the Australian artists with a visit to the archives.  Unlike a library, an archive is concerned, not just with information, but with objects of memory.  Opening one of the archival boxes might be like walking backward into the past of a person or an organization via the objects themselves.

Here are a few images from our visit to the University of Saskatchewan Archives: