Artwork > Forgetting Fields

Forgetting Fields was a 2022 exhibition of my work at VIVIVANEART that included collaborative works with artist Bryce Krynski. Click each image to learn more about the individual artworks. Works available for purchase at VIVIANEART.

"VIVIANEART is pleased to present “Forgetting Fields” an exhibition of new works by Bartol in collaboration with artist, Bryce Krynski. Krynski brings a strength in video work and photography to the creation of the exhibition’s central piece, all roses sleep (inviolate light), an olfactory video and accompanying still images. Shot using ultraviolet video, visitors are invited to see the prairie landscape from a bee’s point of view and a scratch and sniff card expands on the pleasant and pungent experience of pumpjacks, grazing cattle, prairie grasses and wildflowers. As the solitary bee searches and dreams of a rose, the work is meant to conjure questions about our shared future.

An additional video work, Forgetting Fields II, and drawing series, Forgetting Fields I, further Bartol’s conversation, punctuating her exploration of our footprint as beings and consumers of the land. In these process-based works, fire, and water become active collaborators through their use in both the creation and dissolution of imagery. In Forgetting Fields I, native prairie grassland plants of Alberta are painted using cow’s milk. Initially invisible, the images are carefully revealed using the flame of a candle. In Forgetting Fields II, drawings of plants dissolve in water. The water destroys each image in unpredictable ways. Many of the drawings re-form as if by magic, speaking to a process of restoration, natural cycles of renewal and growth, and the intelligence of plants." -VIVIANEART

Photos: Kelly Hofer/Courtesy of VIVIANEART

Needle-and-thread Grass, Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
Silky Lupine, Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
Smooth Goosefoot, Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
Fireweed, Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
June Grass, Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
Yarrow, Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
Nodding Onion, Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
Purple Prairie Clover, Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
Forgetting Fields I
heated milk on paper
22.86 x 30.48 cm
2021
Forgetting Fields II
Video (HD), no sound
40:13, edition of 3
2022
Forgetting Fields II
Video
40 min 13 sec
2022
all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
4K ultraviolet olfactory video with scratch and sniff cards, 14:11
2022
at last, all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
at last, all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
gaillardia, all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
gaillardia, all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
three thistles, all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
are you salivating? all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
three thistles (left) and are you salivating? (right), all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
fireweed, all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
asteraceae, all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
fireweed (left) and asteraceae (right), all roses sleep (inviolate light)
collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Archival digital print (Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin) mounted on aluminum, 50.8 x 90.17 cm, edition of 5.
2022
Texting the Bees
Interactive artwork/LED sign, collaboration with Bryce Krynski
Custom software development by Lowell Smith and Stevan Clement, Electronics hardware fabrication by Lowell Smith, poly acrylic MDF enclosure, raspberry pi computer, fan, wireless keyboard, LEDs, HDMI display, electronic components
2022
Forgetting Fields
Installation View, VIVIANEART
Forgetting Fields
Installation View, VIVIANEART
2022
Forgetting Fields
Installation View, VIVIANEART
2022
Forgetting Fields
Installation View, VIVIANEART
2022