A Very Sacred Experience

A tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canadas greatest Structurist artist. In celebration of his 100th birthday, Eli Bornstein, in collaboration with author and curator Roald Nasgaard, has published a stunning work of personal reflection on a most transformative time in his life and career. Eli Bornstein: Arctic Journals, 1986 and 1987 is a tribute to the Canadian North, a meditation on artistic creation, and a window onto the ideological musings of Canadas greatest Structurist artist. Devoid of the mythologizing other artists have given their writing on the North, Bornsteins journals are introspective, insightful, and sometimes funny. Comprised of personal journal entries from two northern trips he took with photographer Hans Dommaschalong with watercolour studies, Structurist reliefs, and a personal collection of poemsBornsteins work is a vital reminder of our outsized influence over the natural world and an invitation to recognize our need for nature in our life and in our art. Bornstein's publication is the culmination of a lifes work on reconciling himself with nature and the understanding our very existence.