Jon Sasaki

by Jon Sasaki

"This catalogue accompanies the McMichael's exhibition Jon Sasaki: Homage. Each generation walks in the footsteps of the past while also finding ways to describe the world anew. In this series, Sasaki investigates cultures close to home. Jon Sasaki: Homage presents the full suite of Sasaki's large-format high-resolution photographs documenting bacterial cultures and fungus swabbed from archival objects in the holdings of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection--the paintbrushes, palettes and paint boxes once used by the original members of the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. The resulting...