Drawing in Space

About

     Growing up I was all but lost in the big sky of the Canadian prairies with the huge empty landscape stretching out to infinity around me. My long-standing interest in space and my way of seeing comes from this landscape mapped into my imagination early in life. 
       Informed by this vision, the installation is broad in scope encompassing all the dimensions of the gallery: the walls, the floor, the ceiling and lighting, the placement of objects, as well as the boundless space of the mind. Soaring to the ceiling, a large column draws everything together. 
       As a child, and now in the studio, the sky and the horizon hold me in a comforting embrace. I try to reshape the great prairie space with my work, to reimagine that solid horizon resting where the earth meets the sky. Within the gallery, my horizon can rest where the floor meets the walls and a landscape, I know emerges in a space I have recreated, a quiet place of potential, of solace, of peace.

- Betty Kaser