ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Swallows Meadow a show to remember

Visiting the 1 Exhibi-

tion Centre to see the show Swal-
lows Meadow by lan Thomas was
a particularly interesting experi-
ence on opening night.

lan presé¢nted one hour of
slides, photographs of home and
family and.a reading from his
poetic diary.

Finally there was a well acted
piece of drama when Lan took the
role of his mother, father and him-
self. The audience was very quiet,

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rbed by this p | type
of show which we heard later was
done for the first time

It was followed by an enthusi-
astic discussion period and I
believe it gave us all much food
for thought fegarding parent/child
relationships.

Ian Thomas, in this mixed
media exhibition explored the
relationship between himself and
his ageing parents who finally
had to give up their home in Eng-

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land and live in an institution
called Swallow Meadow.
In this exhibition, some of the
pictures were
painted greys
and black in
acrylic and char-
coal which
showed various
stages of his par-
ent's life.
There were
old-age pictures
of both his par-
ents. Small
images such as a dresser or a long
passage brought emotional sad-
ness with institutional-like atmo-

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were various stages of Thomas’

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tal sheets in a heap, and a collec-
tion of his mother's numerous
shoes. There were tape record-
ings of his parent's repetitive
unmotivated sayings while in
Swallows Meadow ‘and much
imagery including a final letter to
Thomas from his mother before
her death.

Heart to Hearts
The Children’s Art show at the

NEC is called Heart to Hearts
Forces Between Generations and
was created by students at Tarry's
Elementary
School and
curated by
Pippa Dean-
Veerman.

ARTS
ETC.:

It is inter-
esting to note
that the chil-
dren's paint-
ings with
their color-
fulness are in
perfect contrast to the grey emo-
tions of Swallow Meadow. This
children’s show is delightful.

Letters are written about
grandparents and illustrations of
their feelings are painted in bright
colors, full of gardens, fruit and
parks. Some forms of this art are
done in fabric to make up grand-
ma or grandpa dolls.

Some have used string and
wood and paper to add to their
pictures for effect. The show
illustrates the love of family, free-
dom of expression and happiness
of environment. Do visit this
show. I am sure you will enjoy it!

Both shows continue to Oct. 8

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THE ROAD HOME

It seems wildly improbable
that one of the world’s biggest
arena acts would find renewed
enthusiasm and perhaps another
level of suc-
cess in a small
basement
club, but that’s
just what
Heart has
done. The
Road Home
takes them to
the 500 seat
backstage club
in their hometown of Seattle,
Washington, giving us the finest
acoustic album I've heard since
the word ‘unplugged’ entered
our vocabulary.

As you might expect with a
live album, we know most of
these songs already...but as
Page ‘and Plant did, Heart has
taken old pictures and given
them new frames. These 14
tracks take pages from the
band’s 20 year history, remind
ing those of us who had forgot-
ten Hean is a great band

Appropriately, The Road
Home opens with the title song
from the group's first album,
Dreamboat Annie

After that, anything goes as
they
chapter
called
Rvad”, and covers include
Joni Mitchell's “River”, Elton
John’s “Seasons” and the
classic “Love Hurts

The band is augmented from
time to time, by a string quar-
tet. Also taking part on stage
with mandolin in hand, as well
as bass and

hop from chapter to
P

There's a new song
Cherry Blossom

rating for

The Road Home

Heart's newest disc
leaves critic in awe Of
acoustic arrangements

versions of the aggressive stuff.
“Barracuda” sounds just as
nasty, perhaps more s0, with
acoustic guitars. The undisput-
ed star of this album however
is “All 1 Wanna Do Is Make
Love To You" .

Originally a mid-tempo rock-
er from the
Brigade
disc, it has
been rear-
ranged into
a piano bal-
lad with
stunning
results. You
have Ann
Wilson's
passionate voice and a piano,
some strings...that’s it.

As muchas I enjoy the stu-
dio original, this is the defini-
tive version.

The packaging? The cover
depicts a young Ann and
Nancy Wilson with a single
burning candle.

Inside, the liner notes
include an interview with the
girls conducted in February of
this year, in which they discuss
the album, the sessions, work-
ing with John Paul Jones, and
the inspiration behind most of
these tracks

For instance, musically,
“Barracuda” wasn't inspired
by Nazareth's “This Flight
Tonight” as previously
believed, but rather by Led
Zeppelin's “Achilles’ Last
Stand”, a not too Zep’s obvi-
ous influence on Heart

The introduction to the lin-
ers indicates this is “the best”
of the three shows, so perhaps
a double disc would've been
called for. We'll just have to
get the video too, to find out
what we missed.

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producer/former Led Zeppelin
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ing about this album seems out
of place...even the title gives
me a warm smile

Songs that were already
acoustic to begin with like
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and Butterfly” vary little from
the originals.

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me most are the rearranged

Key tracks: “Cherry Blos-
som Road”, “All 1 Wanna Do
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“Crazy On You".

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The Castlegar Sun

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The inescapable business of growing old

None of us wants to grow old.
But most of us do. We can only
hope we grow/old graciously
without losing our faculties —
without losing all our vitality
and having to depend too heavily
on others. We can only hope that
our bodies hold on and don’t let
us down,

Tan Thomas is a brilliant artist
who uses mixed media to tell us
two stories about old age. The first
is about his parents as he observed
‘them in their last days in a seniors’
home called Swallows Meadow
\somewhere in England. The sec-
‘ond is about the inescapable lousi-
ness of growing old.

The entire display of paintings
and objects and installations at
ithe National Exhibition Centre
focuses on lan Thomas and his
parents. Occasionally, we note
self-portraits of a younger Ian
Thomas trapped with these par-
ents he can't seem fo understand
and wants to escape from.

Other pictures*focus solely
upon his parents at various stages
of their lives, from the point
when he was a child until they
have entered this seniors’ home.

Most of the paintings, howev-
er, feature Thomas's parents in
their final days. The black and
white acrylics depict most clearly
the deterioration of his parents
until they are only echoes of their
former selves and decrepit husks
of once vital beings.

Who needs it? you might ask.
And from one perspective, you'd
be right. We probably don’t need
to be reminded of our mortality
and the perhaps awful future
awaiting us in old age. And yet,

the fate of Thomas's parents is
very real, Perhaps the images pre-
sented will remind us to live our
lives fully while
we still can.

As you enter
the large gallery,
to your left is
the first installa-
tion. It is com-
posed of a
blown-up photo-
graph of
Thomas's moth-
er when she was a lovely young
woman of about 20, but Thomas
has altered the photo to indicate
the deterioration that comes with
time. Even photographs fade or
become splotched.

Just beneath the photograph is
a marvelous black and white
painting which has three parts to
it. In the middle is his mother
when she is middle-aged and sail-
ing through the air on a swing
amongst the brilliant sunshine. To
the left is a picture of his father,
already with a cane, coming up
the walk to the house.

And to the right in the fore-
ground of the picture is a self-
portrait of Ian Thomas himself
with a pained look on his face as
he remembers what his parents
once were like. But the look on
his face also reflects his horror as
they stumble into an old age that
seems to lack any real dignity.

The most remarkable painting
— again black and white — is a
large triptych or three-part paint-
ing entitled “The Letter.” You
must see this work of art to
understand the sadness associated
with growing old in this way.

@ Pryce

Continued from B4

The Maze

The Visac Gallery in Trail is
showing an art show called The
Maze by Pat Freshci.

This exhibition has been
described as an interpretation of
the labyrinth theme found in
ancient civilizations and is on
until September 29.

The gallery is open Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday from 1-4
p.m It is located at 1501 Cedar Ave.

Jack Leyland
At the Nelson Museum there is
| an exhibition of recent and older
paintings by Jack Leyland. Jack
lives in Halfmoon Bay on the
Sunshine Coast and has been
painting many years in between a
busy career.
He also has designed jewelry
and has taught at the Arctic Col-
' lege. He has done commercial
art, designing church windows
| and many other art media. His
' varied career includes animation
| for TV commercials and film edi-
| tor for the CBC. This will prove
|

an interesting show for those who
visit Nelson.

Nelson Museum is open from
1-4 p.m. daily except Sundays
until Oct. 14.

Grand Forks Art Gallery

If you are still travelling west
in this beautiful fall weather, stop
at the Grand Forks An Gallery by
the library. Visit their gift show
and their present art shows. There
is also some good shows at the
Osoyoos Art Gallery opposite
Smitty's restaurant in the centre
of town.

Fall courses

For those pecolc interested in
art courses in the fall, there are
two workshops; one in water-
colour for beginners and one for
drawing. Both these courses are
given by Keith Selfontiuk. There
is a course on children’s writing
by Ann Alma and finally a course
on camera technique given by
Jerry Addinton.

If you want more information
phone Selkirk College or obtain a
booklet on all fall courses at the
Castlegar Library.

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On the right is a picture of his
mother, now very old, She has
written her son a final letter
which she is
holding. On
the left is a
picture of his
father, also
very old, near-
ly. asleep with
the same letter
nearly falling
to the floor, In
the centre is a
blown-up copy of the letter itself.

In the spidery handwriting of
old age, his mother has tried to

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convey thoughts to him about his
last visit and wisties him a safe trip
and a good life, But her hand-eye
coordination has failed her and the
letter is very difficult to follow.

Beneath her signature is a little
note from ‘his father who has not
valued his mother for many
years, Here he says the letter is
“not my idea.

In all of the paintings, you
can't miss the hands, which are
larger than anything else in the
paintings. The hands almost seem
tq reach out to you just as the
hands of old people are the busi-
est part of them and the part

you're most aware of when you
visit them.

The paintings are complement-
ed by three standing closets with
clothes of various types in them.
‘These are the clothes that remained
for them to. wear at Swallows
Meadow. In the closets are pho-
tographs, and if you stand on the
mats in front of the closets, you
can hear the voices of his parents.

His father is always saying
“When I set up a contract, I stick
by it,” while his mother repeated-
ly says “I must be back to my
room by 7:00 — that's when they
give out the pills.”

lan Thomas's show drives
home the point that senior citi-
zens’ homes are lacking in quali-
ty of life no matter how
perfect the care given. The exhib-
it is worth secing, even if you
have to wander into the smaller
gallery from time to time to clear
your head.

There you can get a breath of
fresh air as you are over-
whelmed by the explosive
colours of children’s art brought
to you by the children of Tarrys
Elementary School

Both of these shows continue
at the NEC to Oct. 8.

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