Tara Cooper
Tara Cooper
“...to be lost is to be fully present and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery”.
—Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Working within a narrative framework, my art practice considers the conditions of desire, both the murmurings of regret and the longing for the future. Not unlike the relationship between the author and her reader, the work engages the viewer on an intimate level (one-to-one). Beneath the rubric of a specifically Canadian Nature, my observations combine fieldwork and footwork moving from the amateur ornithologist, to the idea of north, to my most recent study involving the migratory habits of the retired.
I received my MFA from The College of Art, Architecture and Planning at Cornell University in 2008, specializing in the disciplines of print, film and installation. Currently, I am teaching within the print department at the Ontario College of Art and Design.