CHRIS BOYNE
blueberry hill was my MFA thesis project from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This project is about sentiment—the sentiment of story telling. I have used messy little bits of story and memory to create the work. These bits have been carefully considered. Running aground sailing with the Liston’s in Mahone Bay or eating Blackberries on Blueberry Hill. Holding breath and thunderstorms and masturbation. Travel lifts and yard trucks and stubby bottles. All of these bits come together in this work and they are connected through me because they are mine but there are other connections. Some are literal and specific to time and place- the stories are all from Nova Scotia and most involve the ocean but there are other more important and less literal connections.