Fenn Martin - Living Stories - Sculpted Ceramic Tiles for Fireplace Surround
Fenn Martin
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For The People's Place Fireplace Surround, I have chosen to unite two distinct aspects of Antigonish culture that I have come to admire. Living Stories weaves two imagined narratives that travel up the sides of the fireplace to join in the top section. The left side of the fireplace surround explores a world of past experiences, a world of self reliance and tireless work within declining small scale agrarian life. Amidst the beams of a barn, an aging man holds an axe. The right side of Living Stories embodies friendship surrounded by natural beauty. People are gathered to enjoy a campfire, and the rush of canoeing down the West River. Along the top, the river unfurls into field, a harbour vista where two stories, past and present, become one. I graduated from NSCAD and am a practicing ceramic artist working from a renovated barn in the Ohio Valley, Antigonish.
