La Petite Mort Gallery presents...

FIVE DAY EXHIBIT
JANE BURNSTEIN
"Bound in Banyans - In Black & White"

Vernissage: Friday March 19, 2010 / 7 -10pm

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Proudly sponsored by CKCU 93.1 FM

Artist Statement:

"In this series of mixed media illustrations, I have become fixated  
on the banyan tree and the bodies (real and imagined) it loves to  
embrace. During a trip through Burma several years ago, I saw a small  
stone Buddha entirely embedded high in the gnarled, snake-like limbs  
of a massive banyan. Minutes later, a few metres down the road, I saw  
a carved spirit figure called a “Nat” entangled in another banyan  
tree. This tropical tree began to symbolize a powerful force which  
may ensnare and surround bodies of all kinds. My black and white  
illustrations begin with this metaphor of a tangled prison which may  
at one moment entrap in it’s powerful grip, yet in the next moment  
may nestle, nurture and cocoon."

Thank you,

Guy Berube, director
La Petite Mort Gallery
306 Cumberland Street
Ottawa, ON K1N 7H9
www.lapetitemortgallery.com



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