Cape Blomidon Investigative Initutive

Uncommon Common Art Artist In Residence - b.moshr

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“Minas-mirrored, blunt and broad-nosed rising out of the sea, monster-shaped, into the upper air.”

Vera Munro Smith

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Tracing Blomidons Slope by Bicycle 🚲

Max elevation 187m

Day 28

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Composite of Aerial Photos of Cape Blomidon take between the years 1977 and 2012

Day 25

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Blomidon, serene, aloof, dignified, has seen the tides come and go, has seen the seasons change, has seen one generation rise and fade and be replaced by another, has seen the centuries and their folly and their wisdom come and go, and still in the morning sunshine Blomidon stands out clear, green and blue and red, and still in the evening shadows, Blomidon is dark and full of mystery brooding over the land and the sea that are his territory.

Esther Clark Wright (1957)

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Stone carried from the bottom of Cape Blomidon back to the top of the Bluff

This is a part of the Jurassic basalt layer of Cape Blomidon that sits above the Triassic mudstones that form the bulk of Cape Blomidon. It arrived atop Blomidon roughly 140 million years ago only to tumble from its perch perhaps a few dozen years ago. This month I carried it back up the bluff to place it back to where it originated in a futile effort against Blomidon’s active erosion.

Day 23

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Blomidon from Grand Pre - Beginning to be able to read the landscape, orienting myself with the particular relationships between the far banks of the Minas Basin and the subtle shifting of Cape Blomidon’s profile. You can see the below image is farther East along the banks, the dipping of the lands on the north coast of the basin help tell us where we are.

Day 19

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Blomidon from the Gaspereau Valley

Day 17

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Welcome to the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts and Two Planks and a Passion Theatre

Today I ventured to Ross Creek Centre for the Arts on the North Mountain

The dreary weather drove off most of the Plein Art Artists that were planning to paint at the centre but I still got to be acquainted with this charming and wonderful arts centre! 

Day 16

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Untitled [Cape Blomidon from Wolfville] (1880)

Artist Unknown

Oil on Academy Board

22.9 x 29.8 cm

The Methodist Church of Wolfville is in the foreground, Cape Blomidon is in the background. There are several sailing ships visible.

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View from the Horton Mountains (1840)

William Eagar

Ireland, c 1796 - 1839, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Lithograph on chine collé

16.6 x 24.2 cm

A view of Cape Blomidon and Wolfville. Au verso: three engravings, including Family of Darius.

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Cape Blowmedown and Cape Split -  Joseph DesBarres (1779)

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Sketches from the land of Evangeline -  John N.  Hyde (1882)

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I spent the day browsing through the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, finding representations of Cape Blomidon throughout the years. Most of the historical examples were made in the 1800’s. Even within this smaller time frame the work provides an interesting interpretations of the different viewpoints of Cape Blomidon across Kings County.

Blomidon wood engraving by William Gill for the Winter Carnival Evening Mail (1889) accompanied by a section of the poem Blomidon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Day 15

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Blomidon from memory

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Landscape of Grand Pré

Location: Old Post Road, Grand Pré

Facing North - from the View Park towards the expanse of dykelands of the World Heritage Site. To the east and west are dykes protecting the active agricultural landscape. The Memorial Church at Grand-Pré National Historic Site can be seen in the middle distance; Long Island is to the north of the dykelands and the cliffs of Blomidon are in the far distance.

Landscape of Grand Pré | Old Post Road, Grand Pré

from the View Park towards the expanse of dykelands of the World Heritage Site. To the east and west are dykes protecting the active agricul

Day 14

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Wolfville

Middle Dyke Road

Church Street

Wellington Dyke

Day 13

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Leaving (Canaan)

Returning (Grand Pré)

Day 12