{"id":6094,"date":"2020-04-09T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/?page_id=6094"},"modified":"2022-09-16T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T11:15:31","slug":"sean-whalley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/en\/sean-whalley\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Whalley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The primary focus of Sean\u2019s practice three main components. The first is based on the use of recycled material, focusing on themes of displacement and sustainability. A number of exhibitions were cobbled together using discarded materials from housing renovations, garage demolitions and construction off-cuts. The second compliments this work and are photographic studies examining human traces in nature and the documentation of Urban Forest Remnants, the remains of the forest mentioned above. The third is his work with Public Commissions as both artist and facilitator. The most recent project in this area has been a heritage project for the City of Regina to replace the twelve missing frog spitters in Regina\u2019s Confederation Park, which was realized by collaborating and working with four very talented students. Increasingly, this last element of Sean\u2019s work has crossed over with his teaching practice where making and teaching have become interactive collaborative experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t\t\t<!-- START sean REVOLUTION SLIDER 6.5.14 --><p class=\"rs-p-wp-fix\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t<rs-module-wrap id=\"rev_slider_74_3_wrapper\" data-source=\"gallery\" style=\"visibility:hidden;background:transparent;padding:0;margin:0px auto;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;\">\n\t\t\t\t<rs-module id=\"rev_slider_74_3\" style=\"\" data-version=\"6.5.14\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<rs-slides>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<rs-slide style=\"position: absolute;\" data-key=\"rs-587\" data-title=\"Slide\" data-thumb=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/Sean-W_portrait-100x50.jpg\" data-anim=\"ms:600;\" data-in=\"o:0;\" data-out=\"a:false;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/wp-content\/plugins\/revslider\/public\/assets\/assets\/dummy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sean Whalley\" class=\"rev-slidebg tp-rs-img rs-lazyload\" data-lazyload=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/Sean-W_portrait.jpg\" data-no-retina>\n<!---->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/rs-slide>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<rs-slide style=\"position: absolute;\" data-key=\"rs-588\" data-title=\"Slide\" data-thumb=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/0-SeanWhallley_expo01-100x50.jpg\" data-anim=\"ms:600;\" data-in=\"o:0;\" data-out=\"a:false;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/wp-content\/plugins\/revslider\/public\/assets\/assets\/dummy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sean Whalley\" class=\"rev-slidebg tp-rs-img rs-lazyload\" data-lazyload=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/0-SeanWhallley_expo01.jpg\" data-no-retina>\n<!---->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/rs-slide>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<rs-slide style=\"position: absolute;\" data-key=\"rs-589\" data-title=\"Slide\" data-thumb=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/0-SeanWhallley_expo02red-100x50.jpg\" data-anim=\"ms:600;\" data-in=\"o:0;\" data-out=\"a:false;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/wp-content\/plugins\/revslider\/public\/assets\/assets\/dummy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sean Whalley\" class=\"rev-slidebg tp-rs-img rs-lazyload\" data-lazyload=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/0-SeanWhallley_expo02red.jpg\" data-no-retina>\n<!---->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/rs-slide>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<rs-slide style=\"position: absolute;\" data-key=\"rs-590\" data-title=\"Slide\" data-thumb=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/0-SeanWhallley_expo03-100x50.jpg\" data-anim=\"ms:600;\" data-in=\"o:0;\" data-out=\"a:false;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/wp-content\/plugins\/revslider\/public\/assets\/assets\/dummy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sean Whalley\" class=\"rev-slidebg tp-rs-img rs-lazyload\" data-lazyload=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/0-SeanWhallley_expo03.jpg\" data-no-retina>\n<!---->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/rs-slide>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/rs-slides>\n\t\t\t\t<\/rs-module>\n\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t\tsetREVStartSize({c: 'rev_slider_74_3',rl:[1240,1024,778,480],el:[],gw:[1240],gh:[868],type:'standard',justify:'',layout:'fullwidth',mh:\"0\"});if (window.RS_MODULES!==undefined && window.RS_MODULES.modules!==undefined && window.RS_MODULES.modules[\"revslider743\"]!==undefined) {window.RS_MODULES.modules[\"revslider743\"].once = false;window.revapi74_3 = undefined;if (window.RS_MODULES.checkMinimal!==undefined) window.RS_MODULES.checkMinimal()}\n\t\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t<\/rs-module-wrap>\n\t\t\t<!-- END REVOLUTION SLIDER -->\n<\/p>\n<div  class=\"ut-one-half  \">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While working at the Black Creek Historical Village in North York, Ontario, I came across several references to early settler\u2019s farming practices when Europeans first made the journey to \u201cNorth America\u201d . When they first arrived, they encountered a broadleaf forest so vast it stretched from (roughly) Barrie, Ontario to Mississippi uninterrupted. The old growth trees in this forest were so large settlers were unable to cut them down. As a result, to establish their farms and homesteads, the trees were girdled to kill their canopy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Girdling is a process of removing a trees\u2019 bark to the cambium in a ring around the tree\u2019s circumference. This starves the tree\u2019s canopy of nutrients by disrupting the flow of nutrients from the roots. Without leaves, the farmers were free to plant their food crops around the trees. The irony of this practice is that the once rich soil soon became exhausted because of its disrupted cycle (the trees no longer dropped leaves to fertilize the soil) and the settlers began to move slowly along clearing the forest as they moved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While growing up in Southern Ontario, I encountered a few remnants of this old growth forest, scattered throughout suburban areas, cemeteries and little-known hidden parks and reserves. During several summers I returned to many of these remnants to document them. Some of the trees are over 500 years old, some are second growth and are between 200 and 300 years old. The largest, oldest and most famous tree in this series is known as the Comfort Maple, has a girth of twenty-one feet and is over 550 years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The intent of capturing the \u201cgirth\u201d of the tree and printing panoramic photographs in seventeen-inch-wide strips is to acknowledge and partly reclaim that lost space, that lost history and the lost heritage of that broad leaf forest with the hopes of allowing these gentle giants to have a voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div id=\"utvs_69d56d454f381\" class=\"ut-shortcode-video-wrap \"><figure class=\"ut-video-caption\"><a class=\"ut-load-video\" data-video=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vVTX_Jm2s_k&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><img alt=\"Video\" src=\"http:\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/sheanplanz.jpg\" \/><i class=\"fa fa-youtube-play fa-4x fa-border\"><\/i><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"ut-video-loading\"><i class=\"fa fa-spinner fa-3x fa-spin\"><\/i><\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div  class=\"ut-one-half ut-column-last  \">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/Sean-W_instructions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6090 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/Sean-W_instructions-745x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/Sean-W_instructions-745x1024.jpg 745w, https:\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/Sean-W_instructions-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2019\/06\/bridgesv2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<!-- START seanv2 REVOLUTION SLIDER 6.5.14 --><p class=\"rs-p-wp-fix\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t<rs-module-wrap id=\"rev_slider_75_4_wrapper\" data-source=\"gallery\" style=\"visibility:hidden;background:transparent;padding:0;margin:0px auto;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;\">\n\t\t\t\t<rs-module id=\"rev_slider_75_4\" style=\"\" data-version=\"6.5.14\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<rs-slides>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<rs-slide style=\"position: absolute;\" data-key=\"rs-591\" data-title=\"Slide\" data-thumb=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/proto-type-100x50.jpg\" data-anim=\"ms:600;\" data-in=\"o:0;\" data-out=\"a:false;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/wp-content\/plugins\/revslider\/public\/assets\/assets\/dummy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sean Whalley\" class=\"rev-slidebg tp-rs-img rs-lazyload\" data-lazyload=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/proto-type.jpg\" data-no-retina>\n<!---->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/rs-slide>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<rs-slide style=\"position: absolute;\" data-key=\"rs-592\" data-title=\"Slide\" data-thumb=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/trimmed-installation-view-1-100x50.jpg\" data-anim=\"ms:600;\" data-in=\"o:0;\" data-out=\"a:false;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/wp-content\/plugins\/revslider\/public\/assets\/assets\/dummy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sean Whalley\" class=\"rev-slidebg tp-rs-img rs-lazyload\" data-lazyload=\"\/\/campusaltea.umh.es\/files\/2020\/04\/trimmed-installation-view-1.jpg\" data-no-retina>\n<!---->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/rs-slide>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/rs-slides>\n\t\t\t\t<\/rs-module>\n\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t\tsetREVStartSize({c: 'rev_slider_75_4',rl:[1240,1024,778,480],el:[],gw:[1240],gh:[868],type:'standard',justify:'',layout:'fullwidth',mh:\"0\"});if (window.RS_MODULES!==undefined && window.RS_MODULES.modules!==undefined && window.RS_MODULES.modules[\"revslider754\"]!==undefined) {window.RS_MODULES.modules[\"revslider754\"].once = false;window.revapi75_4 = undefined;if (window.RS_MODULES.checkMinimal!==undefined) window.RS_MODULES.checkMinimal()}\n\t\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t<\/rs-module-wrap>\n\t\t\t<!-- END REVOLUTION SLIDER -->\n<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><\/h4>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><div  class=\"ut-one-half  \">\n<h4 class=\"western\" lang=\"en-GB\"><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"ut-one-half ut-column-last  \">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary focus of Sean\u2019s practice three main components. 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