http://www.ianforbes.ca/Ian_Forbes/Installations/Pages/Morbid_Anatomy.html I have always seen art as an exploration of the marvelous and the fantastic: a magic and alchemical practice. This piece began with a dream: a drowned girl, Ophelia, rising from the earth of a prairie field. In an attempt to realize something of this vision I brought together objects, images and text to construct memory and history (real and imaginary) revealing an intensely intimate expression. In conjunction with this installation I created an elaborate online backstory which Gilbert Bouchard describes in his review: Tall tales from the Peace help put the truth in art. Click the link to see the article. 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