Colleen Schindler
Waiting & Seeing
April 30–May 28, 1995

Waiting and Seeing is a mixed media exhibition combining hybrids of sculpture, printmaking and photography. This body of work is a self portrait, examining a three year span of time spent abroad. The exhibition deals with going home. It is not just returning to a house or structure but rather, a move back to Canada: moving back to the hyper-familiar from the misplaced. Waiting and Seeing involves the security of making the leap back to the familiar and it encompasses the fear in doing so as well. Through the use of personal metaphor, the work examines the complexity of communication, severed relationships and stifling family.