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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For Immediate Release
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Okanagan Log Pile
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">up at airport<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fern Helfand:</span></i><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Okanagan Log Pile</span></i><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">August 2018 to February 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">at the Kelowna Art Gallery’s offsite exhibition space<br>
at the Kelowna International Airport<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">August 8, 2018 – Kelowna, BC:</span></b><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal"> Visitors to the Kelowna International
Airport may find themselves wondering just how a giant pile of logs made its way into the airport.</span></em><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal">Actually, the logs are part of a massive photographic installation entitled
</span></em><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Okanagan Log Pile</span></em><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal"> by Kelowna-based artist Fern Helfand. In addition to the large scale, viewers will no doubt be struck by
the three-dimensional quality that the artist has achieved by strategically mounting individual photographic panels in layers.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal">Beyond the initial visual impact, Helfand hopes her new art installation will draw people’s attention to forestry practices in British Columbia.
The piece not only represents the province’s forests as a potentially renewable resource, and the lumber industry as a major economic driver, but it also speaks to issues such as clear cutting and the loss of the forest.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Regardless of how visitors interpret the piece, this twenty-five-foot-long installation will give passengers a reason to pause on their way to
the departures gate.<em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Okanagan Log Pile
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">is on view until February 2019 at the Kelowna International Airport.<em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal">Fern Helfand received an MFA from the University of Florida and has since held teaching positions at University of Western Ontario, Universiti Sains
Malaysia in Penang and the University of British Columbia. Her photo-based work addressing environmental concerns and the medium of photography itself has been exhibited across Canada and internationally. She currently resides in Kelowna.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information about current exhibitions, public programming or special events, please visit the Kelowna Art Gallery online at www.kelownaartgallery.com.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- 30 –</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">[installation credit]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Fern Helfand,
<i>Okanagan Log Pile</i>, 2018. photo montage on Sintra board. Collection of the artist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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