DAVID WISDOM
Mudflats House 1, Dollarton, 1971
lightjet C-print (2009)
image: 25.8 cm. x 38.2 cm
image courtesy the artist
ESTIMATE: $800 - 1,000
Image courtesy the artist.
David Wisdom is a former Canadian radio personality and host of the music programs Nightlines, RadioSonic, Radio-On, and Pearls of Wisdom on CBC Radio Two. He has been called “the Canadian equivalent of John Peel”. Since retirement in 2007, he has exhibited as a photo media artist. His photographic series from 1969 to 1979 documents the development of the city of Vancouver. During that period he also made remarkable portraits of key figures in Vancouver’s art scene.
Mudflats1 profiles the bricolage, jerry-rigged house built in the notorious Maplewood Mudflat squat by Dr. Paul Spong. Spong would soon achieve notoriety as the initiator of the “Save the Whales” campaign, which would turn the Vancouver-based, anti-nuclear-testing Greenpeace to world-wide ecological activism. Spong had been fired from the Vancouver Aquarium for suggesting that the whales were evolved sentient creatures.
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