Why does this calendar represent the Canadian wilderness? I
think this is an important question to ask myself. After all, if I am exploring
this calendar through a class where Canadian wilderness is a big theme, I
should have an answer. I have mostly researched and thought about my calendar
as two separate things – the painting (or its reproduction) and the product. It
is important to explore the marriage of the two and how that relates to themes
of wilderness. I draw connections to both through Tina Loo’s essay as it deals
with ideas of commodifying Wilderness. Loo expresses this same idea in her
discussion of the creation of parks and reserves to indulge in the desire to
create better environments for sport. In the calendar, Wilderness is packaged
first by the artists into paintings, and then once again by the printing company
as a form of date-tracking and display. Buyers are intrigued by the images –
how they are representative of wilderness and the Canadian psyche. We see the
enjoyment of these such paintings as a sign of high class. The bundling
together of the paintings with the calendar is a way to get a two-for-one
functional form of displaying art.
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