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Mark Beldan >>
Closed for Season
March 1st - April 4th
Skelf SITE presents Closed For Season by Mark Beldan. This new work
was filmed last October during a residency on the Toronto Islands,
Lake Ontario, Canada.
Parks are always a strange negotiation. They accommodate fragile
wildlife and messy picnickers, daily routines and nightly
transgressions, summer crowds and winter emptiness. Careful tending is
needed to maintain the appearance of tranquility.
In the spring of 2017, Toronto Island Park was part-submerged by
unusually high water levels. Just a few months later the park again
looks much as it has for decades. It is difficult to picture the
recent flooding; the trees standing in water, the duckpond in the
field, the carp spawning on the footpath.
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Accompanying this work is a new text by Mia Taylor, below.
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Safe Trip
On a grassy patch in the middle of (you)know wHERE
Notta patch
… a park?
APARK!
In a park (out of season) in the middle of nowhere
Out of the corner of my eye
I spy
A glimmer…
In leaps a showy, shiny, white crested gallop of a
NOSTALGIA moment
It’s the Good Ship From Another Time
Seeking an indistinguishable home
As it surges into Port at great speed, I cry
OPEN ye, Pentagon Shaped Void!
Let me feel your soft golden gloe…
GLOE FLOOD ME
Flood my status quo and glow BRIGHTLY
And then gloe away so I may
Continue
As I was before
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Mark Beldan is a painter who also works with text, audio and video. He was born in Toronto but is now based in London. www.markbeldan.com
Mia Taylor is a London-based artist. She has an interdisciplinary practice that includes writing, video, sound, painting and object making. www.miataylor.co.uk |
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