Stan Clarke’s
Carbonear, NL — oil on canvas / huile sur toile — 1980
Sid Butt has given visual voice to the idea of “driving our cars into the ground.” While we often claim to love nature, we think nothing of abandoning our past failures out of sight and therefore out of mind. Perhaps unwittingly, Butt provides a stark reminder that there is no exterior to our ecology.
Sid Butt is a painter and ceramic artist who has worked as an artist in residence and taught pottery at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was born and lives in Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, where he operates his painting and clay studio, Potter’s Mill.
Sid Butt a donné une voix visuelle à l’idée « d’enfouir nos voitures dans le sol ». Alors que nous prétendons souvent aimer la nature, nous n’avons aucune difficulté à abandonner nos échecs passés hors de notre vue et, par conséquent, hors de notre esprit. Peut-être que sans le vouloir, Butt nous rappelle brutalement qu’il n’y a pas de face cachée à notre écologie.