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"Each of my pieces represents a resolutuion of chaos, where I strive to render a single thing down from many parts."
The Process:
Laird begins by cutting and recutting pieces of wood, arranging and rearranging them to discover the fractal contours that direct him to resolution of a "picture". Once assembled, he then works the surface, applying paint, and sanding to expose existing grains. His finished piece is then preserved with a thin layer of wax.
Laird was born in Scotland where his earliest influences were the applied arts, interiors, and public art. These enthusiasms fused when he arrived in Canada to do Exhibiton and Display work as Montreal prepared for it's world's Fair, Expo'67. Since then he has worked in photography, mixed media and, inspired by a decade of residence in a decaying mill town, salvaged wood.
He recently moved to Cowichan Station, a pastoral vinyard community on Vancouver Island, where he was introduced to an art photographer and printmaker extraordinare, Grant Kernan, who has since skillfully transferred some of Laird's imagery onto paper.
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