Pike explores how new combinations of multi-sensory triggers within a complicated painting intensify mesmerizing emotion.  This project created multiple sensations that magnify dramatic environmental crisis.

Chill 

Languorous swimming under Arctic ice provides hope for safe comfortable harbour.

 

The Reflective 

Mammatus storm clouds predict passionate cataclysmic weather.

 

The Deluge

Torrents of discarded knitwear flow downhill relentlessly, like molten lava.

gouache on paper, 2.4 m x 6.1 m (8 x 20 ft), 2005

 

Lunacy

Sea anemones morph with submerged sweaters to, eventually, breed woollen cephalopods.

gouache on paper, 2.4 m x 6.1 m (8 x 20 ft), 2003                                Winnipeg Art Gallery collection

 

Photographer: Robert Barrow