A Virtual Walk
of
The Boreal Poetry Garden Click on the
image above to start.
The artist
gratefully acknowledges her
long-standing gratitude to The
Canada Council for the Arts and
Arts NL (formerly the
Newfoundland & Labrador Arts
Council).
"Underlying all my work as an
environmental artist has been an
interest in place�not
as a geographical location but as
a process that
involves layers of memory,
multiple narratives, ecology,
language, politics, emotions, and
both scientific and vernacular
knowledge."
�Marlene
Creates
Key words
artist's garden
art and mapping
boreal forest poetry
Boreal Poetry Garden
eco-aesthetics, eco-art
eco-phenomenology
eco-poetry
embodied ecology
environmental art
environmental poetry
geoaesthetics
land-based art
landscape and poetry
memory mapping, alternative
mapping,
participatory
mapping, counter
mapping
Newfoundland artist
Newfoundland dialect
Newfoundland poetry
phenomenology and art
phenomenology and poetry
photo-landworks
photo-installations
place-based poetry
place-based performance art
poetry art garden
poetry garden walks
poetry walks
site-specific poetry
site-specific performance art
video-poetry, video-poems
walking artist
walking poet
Land
acknowledgement
In acknowledgement of those who
were here before me, I am grateful
to live and work in the unceded
ancestral homeland of the Beothuk,
Mi�kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of the
province of Newfoundland and
Labrador. Previous to European
settlement, the provincial
territory had been inhabited for
over 8 thousand years by a
succession of people who have been
called the Maritime Archaic
Indians, the Thule, the Groswater
and Dorset Eskimos.
The boreal
forest habitat is the home of
moose, caribou, black bear, lynx,
red fox, weasel, mink, pine
marten, hares, wolf, chipmunks,
shrews, mice, beaver, otter,
muskrat, coyote, bats, voles,
squirrels, and numerous species of
birds.
Recipient of the Mary
MacDonald Award for Excellence
in Visual Arts (EVAs) from
VANL-CARFAC (Visual Artists
Newfoundland and Labrador), which
"thanks an individual or
organization whose efforts have
helped to sustain and build the
visual arts sector," presented June
14, 2019.
Recent Commission Walking
& Memory Mapping
a project for Engage with
Nature-Based Solutions, an
initiative led by the University of
Victoria, BC, with funding by
Environment and Climate Change
Canada and ArtsNL, 2024.
Recent books and publications Sarah Bassnett and
Sarah Parsons.Photography
in Canada, 1839�1989: An
Illustrated History, Art
Canada Institute, Toronto, 2023
(p.214).
Denise Lawson and Angela Somerset. to
speak out what you see. there is
nothing contrived, Comox
Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC,
2022.
(to
download a pdf of the publication)
Marlene Creates. "Tuning and Being
Tuned By a Patch of Boreal Forest:
Works from The Boreal Poetry Garden,
Newfoundland, Canada." In Trees
in Literatures and the Arts:
HumanArboreal Perspectives in
the Anthropocene,
Carmen Concilio and Daniela
Fargione, eds. Lexington
Books,
The Rowman & Littlefield
Publishing Group, Ecocritical Theory
and Practices series, Lanham,
Maryland, USA, 2021.
