Things We Put on a Hill

Things We Put On A Hill

Things We Put on a Hill is the exhibition catalogue for the solo exhibition that travelled coast to coast to nine venues across Canada. Curated by Gil McElroy and organized by the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown Prince Edward Island and the Acadia Art Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

‘Everything,’ wrote the French philosopher Gaston Bachelaard, ‘comes alive when contradictions accumulate.’ The prints of Dan Steeves have long been fecund places where paradox and contradiction abound.

Gil McElroy, from his essay Things We Put on a Hill
Things We Put on a Hill | intaglio print by Dan SteevesThings We Put on a Hill
Closure | intaglio print by Dan SteevesClosure
The eruption of the new | intaglio print by Dan SteevesThe eruption of the new
The Fencing of the Table | intaglio print by Dan SteevesThe Fencing of the Table
Fire-fields | intaglio print by Dan SteevesFire-fields
from light to obscurity and darkness | intaglio print by Dan Steevesfrom light to obscurity and darkness
Indenture | intaglio print by Dan SteevesIndenture
its resonance deepened with many viewings | intaglio print by Dan Steevesits resonance deepened with many viewings
It makes us feel white | intaglio print by Dan SteevesIt makes us feel white
It pushes below surfaces | intaglio print by Dan SteevesIt pushes below surfaces
nowhere to be seen | intaglio print by Dan Steevesnowhere to be seen
Perpending Midgic | intaglio print by Dan SteevesPerpending Midgic
the place of memory and contemplation | intaglio print by Dan Steevesthe place of memory and contemplation
Safe Passage | intaglio print by Dan SteevesSafe Passage
Succour in Abandonment | intaglio print by Dan SteevesSuccour in Abandonment
Ten Years On | intaglio print by Dan SteevesTen Years On
The Last Home | intaglio print by Dan SteevesThe Last Home
The thought can needle | intaglio print by Dan SteevesThe thought can needle
through the darkness | intaglio print by Dan Steevesthrough the darkness
Tidal White | intaglio print by Dan SteevesTidal White