Rain/Plains by Jennifer Demitor is one of many public artworks installed across the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Rain/Plains, Jennifer Demitor
Jennifer Demitor, 2017
paint installation
Bedford Hammonds Plains Community Centre
About the Artwork
"Weather is something that is unique to a region and, in essence, defines a specific place. In the Maritimes, a large part of that includes the rain. Our weather connects us. It is something we all experience despite our various backgrounds. Weather is the topic that we most often broach with strangers or in casual conversation. RAIN/PLAINS celebrates and embraces this often under-appreciated but place defining and connecting element.
Lines of blues and greens cascade down the wall in a variety of tones. The composition and interruption of lines creates a feeling of falling. While the colours and tones create depth within the two dimensional plane of the wall. The bright contrasting orange pixels interrupt and contrast the rain, representing us, unique separate entities surrounded and connected through this experience and place.
Abstracted through pixelation, RAIN/PLAINS looks to create not a visual representation of rain but the idea of it. The pixelation is also used to connect the piece into its surrounding architecture by referencing the grid created between the wood slats on the ceiling and walls. In essence, RAIN/PLAINS adopts the inherit architecture as its basic framework while using tone and colour to create a depth of plane, playing with both two and three dimensionality." - Jennifer Demitor
About the Artist
Jennifer Demitor is a visual artist and registered architect based out of Kingston, ON. She is originally from Kelowna, BC, where she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at UBC-Okanagan. Subsequently, she travelled across the country to get her Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies and Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University in Halifax. After working primarily as an architect, she realized her artistic and architectural practices were intertwined and could inform and enhance each other. Her work uses the built environment to adjust our perceptions of the built and natural worlds and connect us to our surroundings. These architectural installations are often built in situ and either engage with or evolve out of their locales often exploring the lines between architecture and art. She is the owner and principal architect of Fabricae Architecture and Art Ltd. where she explores how to instill more art in the architecture around us.