For my research project, I had
originally focused on a theme – Asian immigrants as they relate to wilderness –
and set out to find source material that would complement and guide my
research. However, the other day, my roommate, Sarah and I were at SaveOn and
came across a calendar using landscape images from the Group of Seven. She
jokingly said that somebody should do their project on it, and thus my new
research project was born. I mulled over the idea of switching, and came to
realize that given the context through which we have been discussing
wilderness, this calendar would be a more appropriate stimulus because much of
what we talk about in class is based around wilderness as a western concept.
Through my
research, I hope to discover and explore the following:
1.
The group of seven and why were they interested
in the depiction of Canadian landscapes?
2.
Each individual painting’s origin, medium, and
painter
3.
The locations of each painting
4.
The relation of these paintings to the calendar
format
5.
How, if at all, does the paper calendar format
relate to themes regarding wilderness?
These five points will hopefully serve as a guide for my research. I aim to critically examine the discoveries and connections I make through this research process in order to more firmly understand the role of Wilderness in today’s Canadian society.
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