New Release!
Desert Artemisia – Badlands Bits & Bones
Curated by Robert Bose, Sarah L. Pratt & Jim Jackson
The Alberta Badlands. A region better known for what lies beneath – coal, fossils, and the geologic strata of deep time – than what lives above. Living itself is an act of rebellion in these scarred hills. Alongside the hardy sage, prickly pear, and circling crows, there are certain people drawn to the fragile beauty of this land, where Old Gods emerge from the sun-baked sediment, calling to lost souls. A broken-hearted grave digger discovers that nothing in the badlands can be buried, without unearthing something else. In the long shadow of the Hoodoos, night blooming flowers conceal a gateway to salvation, and immortality is on offer within the damp, black wounds carved deep into the earth. But always for a price. The price of bone, and blood. Desert Artemisia is a collection of fiction, poetry, illustrations, and music created and curated by artists deeply captivated by one of the most haunting places on Earth.
With art by Janice Blaine, Poems and Photography by Peter Story and Bob Canuel, Music by Jim Jackson, and prose by Jim Jackson, Lareina Abbott, F.B. McRory, Sarah L. Pratt and Robert Bose
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The Seventh Terrace gratefully makes its Earthly home in Calgary-Mohkinstsis, on Treaty 7 territory, and that of Métis Nation of Alberta, Districts 5 and 6. We acknowledge the histories, languages, and cultures of all First Nations, whose presence continues to enrich our shared tradition of storytelling.