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[978-1-89470-78-8] 2011. (Mass market paperback) As new. Brochure that unfolds into a poster containing 4 panels of colour images and six panels of poetry in a poster form. Verso has images and information about the installation. Timothy Long - "Driving Scaglione's poetic work is an archetypal impulse, which she describes as the desire to "re-mythologize humanity's broken relationship to the earth through images of healing and regeneration." Previous site-specific installations haverealized this intention on an impressive scale. In her outdoor installation for Crossfiring: the Claybank Project in 2006, Scaglione dotted a natural prairie amphitheatre with 20 foot wooden ladders. Piercing the blue bowl of the sky, these ladders recalled the chimneys of the adjacent brick plant and gave metaphorical expression to their former task of turning raw clay into finished bricks: the ladders by which cities rise into the air. More recently, Scaglione has worked with beds as material and metaphor. During a six-week residency at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in 2008, Scaglione created Earth Bed Tells, an outdoor installation which incorporated materials from the Dawson City dump as well as mine tailings from Dredge #4, a massive excavation site. The life-sized beds prompted a reflection on humanity's collective need for sleep, a restorative interlude which is essential not only for personal well-being, but, metaphorically, for the health of the planet. In her installation for the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Scaglione has been given the opportunity to create her largest indoor installation to date. For this exhibition, the artist has chosen to introduce a new element, the boat, which is for her a "metaphor of spiritual journey.".…