The Project started with my trip to the Swedish Arctic in February 2009 where I reinterpreted conceptual pieces by Lawrence Weiner, Harry Savage and Iain and Ingrid Baxter of N.E. Thing Company. These artists had organized an expedition to Inuvik, NT in 1969 to make work for an Edmonton Art Gallery show organized by Bill Kirby. They were accompanied by Kirby, Virgil Hammock and Lucy Lippard. Lippard recorded the details of the trip and published the document as “Art Within the Arctic Circle” in The Hudson Review (Vol. 22, No. 4) Winter 1969-1970. I came across the article before I arrived in Sweden to begin a fellowship at Umeå University. In the course of carrying out my reinterpretations in Jokkmokk, Jukkasjärvi and Årrenjarka, I wanted to use the 1969 work as a template or radiant lens to consider the significance of the artwork and the gendered body of the artist in the far north – and perhaps in the process alter the original intention of the pieces. I undertook the second phase of the project at A.I.R. Bergen in Norway during the winter of 2011. While still inspired by the 1969 pieces, this phase takes into consideration romantic and transcendentalist notions of nature as well as the history of exploration to the Canadian and Scandinavian north/s. It includes video, drawings, altered images and text. The textual pieces are a mash-up of letters between Lippard and me on the subject of her 1969 Arctic trip, sections of The Hudson Review article, passages from the best-selling novel, The Sheik (1921), by E.M. Hull, a British author famous for her “desert-romances,” historical records of early Arctic exploration, and my own writing. The Project has since become part of a broader collection of work that explores the collective imaginary in regards to nature, as well as our conflicted relationship with it, and the human longing for travel, journeys and exploration.