Spectre, 2014, crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, installation at Anchorage Museum, Alaska Photo courtesy Anchorage Museum

Spectre, 2014/2018. Crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, installation at Anchorage Museum, Alaska
Photo courtesy Anchorage Museum

Spectre

Spectre is an elegy to a polar bear that was held in captivity at the Banff Park Museum Zoo from 1922 until 1938. Crocheted snowflakes and crystals, suspended in a darkened room, create the bear’s silhouette. The title, Spectre, means both ghost and spectacle. 

Spectre, 2014/2018. Crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, installation at Anchorage Museum, Alaska
Photo courtesy Anchorage Museum

Spectre, 2014, crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, installation at Anchorage Museum, Alaska Photo courtesy Anchorage Museum

Spectre, 2014/2018. Crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, installation at Anchorage Museum, Alaska
Photo courtesy Anchorage Museum

Spectre, 2014, crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, installation at Anchorage Museum, Alaska Photo courtesy Anchorage Museum

Spectre, 2014/2018. Crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, installation at Anchorage Museum, Alaska
Photo courtesy Anchorage Museum

Spectre, 2014, detail. Crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, site specific installation at the Banff Park Museum
Photo: Sarah Fuller

IN Exhibit

BanfF, AB

MUSE, Banff Park Museum, 2014

Anchorage, Alaska

Spectre, 2014, crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature, installation at Anchorage Museum, Alaska Photo courtesy Anchorage Museum

Aiviq and Nanuq: The Walrus and the Polar Bear, 2018

Eastport, Maine

Spectre, 2014, crocheted wool, crystals, wooden armature; installation at Tides Institute and Museum, Eastport ME photo: Markley Boyer

Tides Institute and Museum of Art, 2015

Ottawa, ON

Rewilding: The David Suzuki Arts Prize Exhibition, Canadian Museum of Nature, 2024-2025

Halifax, NS

Nocturne, Anna Leonowens Gallery, 2015

 
Video of Spectre at CMN