Philip Beesley
From childhood memories, and from a few others,
there emanates a sentiment of
being unintegrated, and then later of having gone astray, which
I hold to be the most
fertile that exists. [1]
Andre Breton, First Manifesto of
Surrealism
Skin Deep is a gathering of recent sculpture by Lyn
Carter and Carl Tacon.
A veil, trembling, draped over a mass that is almost
unthinkably heavy: a mammoth limestone block. The veil, pulled toward
the monumental block of stone, flowing and coalescing against it
like a shore lining new land. Some of the forces unleashed in this
gathering might have been a Canadian epic. The forces are huge.
In an earlier time, we might have spoken of this with confidence,
describing the primal limestone mass and a
