Kalynn Sinnamon

Kalynn Sinnamon is a 26 year old Artist and alumna of the Ontario College of Art and Design based out of London, Ontario. Her work explores Canadian landscape, with a focus on relationships between urban development and the land, and the pursuit of the Canadian wilderness. These interactions are explored on both large and small scales, in populous or remote locations, and is expanding this work to include culturally and geographically unique places in Canada, all through the lens of "accessibility" and how modern infrastructure often shapes our relationship with the land.

It is my intention to explore Canada's landscape and our relationship and interaction with the land. I have a particular focus on the interaction between wilderness and urban development with a focus on the following topics: A) exploring the dichotomy of land-resource dependency for survival and the potential unforgiving harshness of the elements. B) indigenous occupation and close relationship with the land, contrasted with colonization, and subsequent hyper-development of Canada. C) changing landscapes following development and modernization (clearing land, urban-concentric development, roads and highways) and contrasting this with the high areas of virtually untouched wilderness existing outside of urban development. D) exploring contemporary relationships of Canadians with the land : from close mutual relationships, to unsupportable resource use, modern disassociations, to cultivating exploratory, appreciatory and symbiotic relationships with the Canadian wilderness.