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Panoramas 1985 - 86
Personal and domestic narratives lead to looking at how the built environment governs contemporary experience. The combination of models of actual elements of buildings with media images of disasters and other natural and social phenomena lead to a small series of works, that look at how architecture exercises power over the individual.
![Facing Extinction, 1985 - 86, oil paint, fabric, wood. Collection: National Gallery of Canada](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6188c262dd640c27a2abfe7b/6b55ca71-585a-4bbf-9ed8-60ab8fd63560/facing+extinction+86.jpg)
Facing Extinction, 1985 - 86, oil paint, fabric, wood. Collection: National Gallery of Canada
![Escaping History, 1986, oil paint, fabric, wood, plaster.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6188c262dd640c27a2abfe7b/d6c43df7-dde0-4581-8a2e-789de6db64a6/escaping+history+86.jpg)
Escaping History, 1986, oil paint, fabric, wood, plaster.
![Losing Site, 1986, oil paint, fabric, wood, plaster.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6188c262dd640c27a2abfe7b/ffdca48e-7b9d-45d9-83db-3cd55c6a0039/losing+site+86+web.jpg)
Losing Site, 1986, oil paint, fabric, wood, plaster.
![One: Only So Close, 1985, oil paint, fabric, wood.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6188c262dd640c27a2abfe7b/2185de9d-8970-43c6-a91f-521d48fb0c0f/one+in+the+face.jpg)
One: Only So Close, 1985, oil paint, fabric, wood.
![Unattainable Immediacy: Only So Close, 1985, oil paint, fabric, wood, plaster. Collection: The Canada Council Art Bank.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6188c262dd640c27a2abfe7b/1665462170003-3OHVM1XXPQOLE7P4H542/unattainable%2Bimmediacy%2Bonly%2Bso%2Bclose%2Bs%2B85.jpg)
Unattainable Immediacy: Only So Close, 1985, oil paint, fabric, wood, plaster. Collection: The Canada Council Art Bank.