Artist's Statement
In this age of Google Earth and remote sensing,
"ground truthing" refers to the practice of map-makers
who physically go out on the land to verify for themselves
that data gathered is correct.
The installations for Ground Truthing are constructed
entirely on site in Dawson and Whitehorse, along the
banks of the Yukon River.
Discarded urban and natural materials are foraged from
the local landscape, and the work is assembled by hand,
in the same way that animals or birds would construct a
nest or dam; working simply with whatever materials are
at hand, whether they find themselves navigating the urban
forest or a mountainside.
The work explores the beauty possible in the mundane,
the discarded and the overlooked; and explores the natural
and cultural geographies and histories of the town sites
and surrounding landscape. Over time, the work will be
allowed to slowly reabsorb back into the landscape.
Artist's Biography
Originally from the wilds of southwestern Ontario, Veronica
Verkley is a Toronto-based new media artist, sculptor and
filmmaker. Her work combines technology, animals, and
scavenging techniques; and ranges from the mechanical
to the ethereal. She has shown extensively, including a
public art commission in the Don Valley Toronto, a
BravoFACT & NFB stop-motion animated short film, and a
Canada Council new media research and production
project at VideoPool in Winnipeg. She is in the Symbiosis
collective, on the board of the Subtle Technologies festival
of art and tech, and works in film, dance and theatre doing
animatronics, puppeteering, animation & design.
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