Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky: Passing Resemblance

Weppler and Mahovsky’s Solaris created during community workshops in Sackville and based on the theme of water as the connection between all life on earth is a multichannel video work in which a collaboratively made ambient soundscape forms the score for the documentation of sculptures of living things made by workshop participants. The sculptures cast of ice dissolve into and coalesce out of a single pool of dark water suggesting the birth of a primordial language at the same time as they take on the shimmering character of memories of a vanished world. In an accompanying video participants are shown creating the soundtrack exposing the delicate dynamic of collective making.