Artworks
Hand-spun Japanese paper, driftwood, wire
This sculpture was inspired by British Columbia’s forest tenure system, the complex legal framework used by the Province to assign rights to timber. It includes excerpts from section 35 of the Forest Act, which lays out the content of a tree farm license.
Tree farm licenses and other long-term forest tenures have brought the province wealth, but they have also been flash points for controversy - from vocal disagreements over how (and in whose interest) public lands should be managed, to ground-breaking court cases asking who (the Crown or First Nations) hold title in the first place.