Our art exhibition, From Harm to Harmony: Catch Wind of It, seeks to amplify our artists’ messages of hope and concern to a broader audience. Troubled by the damaging carbon footprint of fossil fuels, they share a desire to encourage the shift toward more alternative energy sources in New Brunswick.
Their poetic pinwheel garden installation, created for the Third Shift — Saint John’s outdoor contemporary art festival which took place on August 19-20 2022 — is a reflection on the renewable and powerful source which is at the periphery of everything – wind.
Representing wind’s creative, transformative, kinetic, distributive, and symbiotic qualities, each artist has created a functioning pinwheel/whirligig, using their respective mediums (wood, metal, found objects, textiles etc.), to animate a uniform platform and propeller, designed and produced by Gary Crosby and Mario Doiron, woodworkers from Harm to Harmony.