Project Statement:
Canadian author W.O. Mitchell’s seminal book Who Has Seen the Wind depicts life as a child in rural Saskatchewan in the 1930s. Through stories of everyday events of a young boy trying to make sense of life, death and God, Mitchell addresses the theme of being human, articulating a universal theme in an authentic Canadian Prairie voice.
Seventy years after its publication, “O Human Child” takes a contemporary look at children growing up in rural Saskatchewan, and considers how the tensions and complexities of childhood today both contrast and mirror those of Mitchell’s time.
*Title borrowed from W.B. Yeats poem The Stolen Child
Artist Bio:
Vera Saltzman is a Canadian photographer who primarily explores themes of identity, place and memory. She is a graduate of the Portfolio Development Program at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO). Currently based in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan, she is represented by Slate Fine Art Gallery in Regina.
