"Tea and Takaya the Lone Wolf Story" by Katharine Pope
Artist Statement
“Cheryl Alexander's documentary about Takaya first caught my attention. Victoria is my hometown. I am familiar with Discovery Island and have enjoyed views from Oak Bay towards this small island coastline. As an artist who explores topics of social theory, I felt compelled towards Takaya, this lone wolf story as it parallels my experiences and perspective living in Victoria. The city is beautiful and well gentrified, yet isolated and protected on Vancouver Island. Takaya appeared to live an idyllic protected life on Discovery Island, and met a tragic end upon venturing away.”
Artist Bio
Katharine is an artist currently living in Victoria, BC. She enjoys painting with a vibrant palette in acrylics. She is a figure painter with interests in social theory. Her paintings portray an objectified gaze and social ritual. Communication is through gesture, pattern, and dress. Expectation and memory projected upon the interaction, become the missing information. The virtue and vice of the tableau is not that of the figures.
Artist Statement
“Cheryl Alexander's documentary about Takaya first caught my attention. Victoria is my hometown. I am familiar with Discovery Island and have enjoyed views from Oak Bay towards this small island coastline. As an artist who explores topics of social theory, I felt compelled towards Takaya, this lone wolf story as it parallels my experiences and perspective living in Victoria. The city is beautiful and well gentrified, yet isolated and protected on Vancouver Island. Takaya appeared to live an idyllic protected life on Discovery Island, and met a tragic end upon venturing away.”
Artist Bio
Katharine is an artist currently living in Victoria, BC. She enjoys painting with a vibrant palette in acrylics. She is a figure painter with interests in social theory. Her paintings portray an objectified gaze and social ritual. Communication is through gesture, pattern, and dress. Expectation and memory projected upon the interaction, become the missing information. The virtue and vice of the tableau is not that of the figures.
Artist Statement
“Cheryl Alexander's documentary about Takaya first caught my attention. Victoria is my hometown. I am familiar with Discovery Island and have enjoyed views from Oak Bay towards this small island coastline. As an artist who explores topics of social theory, I felt compelled towards Takaya, this lone wolf story as it parallels my experiences and perspective living in Victoria. The city is beautiful and well gentrified, yet isolated and protected on Vancouver Island. Takaya appeared to live an idyllic protected life on Discovery Island, and met a tragic end upon venturing away.”
Artist Bio
Katharine is an artist currently living in Victoria, BC. She enjoys painting with a vibrant palette in acrylics. She is a figure painter with interests in social theory. Her paintings portray an objectified gaze and social ritual. Communication is through gesture, pattern, and dress. Expectation and memory projected upon the interaction, become the missing information. The virtue and vice of the tableau is not that of the figures.