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Welcome baby Maren. You are already so so loved!

This is the last weekend to check out If You Think Your Happiness Is Important . Go soak in their cozy vibes, warm lights, and delicious eats before the show comes down on Wednesday night.

If You Think Your Happiness Is Important is presented in reclaimed window frames from abandoned prairie homesteads. Most of us who have grown up on the prairies have spent much time exploring these ubiquitous weathered farmhouses: combing through the leftovers of lives in kitchen cupboards, papers stacked in hallways, and broken bed frames leaning against walls. The dry wind preserves these time capsule-like spaces and standing in the living rooms, looking out the windows at the prairies beyond, it’s easy to feel part of an unending time and place. These frames are a tangible connection to that landscape.

The expansive images reach to the very edges of the frames but are restricted to their dimensions. This suggests that there is always more extending beyond what we can see. It’s up to the audience to determine whether the tension created by this uncomfortable or uplifting.

Original pieces from the show will be sold in this framing. Limited run prints are also available for purchase so they can be framed by the buyer in the style that best suits their preference.

There is grief in these pieces.

After the end of my marriage and then coming out as q***r, l had to redefine my relationship with the land where I felt most at home - rural southern Alberta.

The pain of judgement and disconnection is blended into these landscapes. But also threaded through them is healing, joy, and the certainty that the expansiveness of the earth can hold our endless diversity.

Our happiness belongs in all the spaces that feel like home.

Come see “If You Think Your Happiness is Important” this month.

***rjoy

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