Light Ship (Test no.2), wood, electrical components, incandescent lightbulb, gouache, 14” x 3” x 9”, 2026
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Squarebody Resolute, reel. Thanks to Brian Virostek @harebrianed and Samuel Thulin for their production help.
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Former Federal Government ‘squarebody’ truck, Laval, 2025
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Detail: rear footwell, work glove, rags, plumbing fittings, Laval, 2025
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Detail: ‘HONEY MIEL’, military ration tube found under driver’s side seat of former Federal Government ‘squarebody’ truck, Laval, 2025
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Detail: box with debris including gravel, polypropene rope, bailing wire, battery terminal clamp, paper coffee cups, cardboard, etc., Laval, 2025
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Detail: ‘Dive Hawaii’ bumper sticker, Laval, 2025
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Detail: box with debris, cab window, Laval 2025
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Detail: tailgate, Laval, 2025.
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Passenger side door, Laval, 2025.
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Detail: overbuilt brutalist bumper, tailgate and Happy Valley-Goose Bay Ground Search and Rescue Team and ‘Ontario Incredible!’ stickers, Laval, 2025
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
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Tailgate, Laval, 2025. I was told that the man who originally bought the truck as Government Surplus was a scuba diver who travelled around the world to dive. This explains the Hawaii stickers. The yellow sticker to the left reads: ‘Empêcher les dommages provoque en partie la présence de corps étrangers (English: Preventing damage partly causes the presence of foreign bodies). Another sticker is from the Dziennik Bałtycki (English: Baltic Daily) a now defunct daily newspaper from Pomerania, Poland. Certainly, the most beautiful of all the stickers is stuck to the overbuilt brutalist rear bumper—simple black text on a white background ‘May Peace Prevail On Earth’. I am interested in how these stickers tell a meandering and somewhat abstract story of the truck’s post-Government life.
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Squarebody Resolute is a task-based project that saw me source a former Government of Canada ‘squarebody’ truck from Resolute, Nunavut. The truck was transported to Montréal by Arctic sealift ship where it was exhibited as an intact large-scale sculptural object.
