This essay by Kimberly Phillips discusses Deadhead, Cedric, Nathan and Jim Bomford’s elaborate floating sculptural installation that references the myriad countercultural histories of Canada’s West Coast. Phillips describes how the past literally comes floating back to the waterways around Vancouver through this artwork.

Kimberly Phillips explores themes of ephemerality, permanence and sentiment as they exist in the work of artists Noa Giniger and Marian Penner Bancroft. The weeping willow is a motif running through the work of both of these artists, with melancholy and sorrow represented by various representations of the willow. These representations, developed through the use of video and photography in these artists’ practices, are further discussed in relation to the passage of time and construction of memory.