The Skeleton Park Arts Festival (SPAF) in Kingston, Ontario has once again turned the North Side of Kingston into a big, glorious, walkable art gallery. In 2020, when the pandemic forced arts festivals to shut down or to reimagine their focus, SPAF came up with the idea of having a series of outdoor arts installations, which were scattered outdoors throughout Kingston’s Skeleton Park area. In its second year, SPAF Next Door is brilliantly curated by Nicole Daniels and it “showcases the work of twenty-six artists based in Katarokwi/Kingston, taking shape in the form of sixteen eclectic installations, from painting and sculpture to performance art and augmented reality.” I’m delighted to have my work included. My piece, Micro-Macro, is installed at Central Public School on Sydenham Street. The purpose of my piece is to explore elements of the ecosystem of a tree in an Eastern Ontario forest, with a focus is on the less popular and understood categories that make up our natural environment.
Photos by Chris Miner.