Scopes

 Aries

The odds on you surviving the day with your sanity intact are low.

 Taurus

Position yourself well, for the revolution is almost here. Your tinfoil hat is also crooked.

 Libra

Why does everybody apart from you seem to know what they are doing?

 Scorpio

Raven Skyriver, who has become a highly collected glass artist in the US, recounts the influence of growing up on the Puget Sound. “I have always been connected to the ocean and the creatures who reside within it,” he says. “I had a little sailboat I saved up for when I was young, but when I was introduced to glass at age 16, I sold the boat to go take a glass class in Italy, and that was that!”

Today, Skyriver’s work is almost exclusively dedicated to the marine ecosystem and his attempt to place the creatures back into their environment by capturing their fluid nature in molten glass with hues and such exquisite precision, it makes them feel alive and suspended in water.

For other artists, it is less about representational expressions of the coastal environment around them, but rather submitting an ideological sensibility about it, namely human impact on the natural world and concerns for its preservation -- be that climate change, pollution, garbage, and threats to wildlife.

Salt Spring artists Jane Kidd and Anna Gustafson seek to make bold statements with their work, as does American photographer Danielle Dean and Canadian John Macdonald in more meditative, subtle contemplations.

Infusing meaning through her masterful textiles and tapestries, Kidd affirms, “I see this current work as a warning of environmental disaster; a call to pay attention and recognize our complicity in environment carelessness.”

Her fabrics are complex stories of pattern and colour inspired by objects like rusty metal, industrial garbage, beach refuse or small natural phenomena like mold, lichens, moss, shell middens.

These kinds of exchanges and presentations of world-class international work is a development on Salt Spring that Howard Jang, Executive and Artistic Director of ArtSpring is committed to supporting.

“This exhibition serves as an opportunity for artists, and we as art centres, to engage in meaningful cultural exchange, foster relationships, introduce our communities to world-class artistic excellence, and form a bit of pride that for such a small specific region, we can celebrate something unique on the global stage,” he says.

From the immense to the intimate, co-curator Pat McCallum adds, “Archipelago is a rare and timely series of exhibitions that question the impact of environment and national identity on an artist’s process and presents a rare opportunity to see new work from some of the finest artists of the Salish Sea.”

Submitted by Kirsten Bolton

 Gemini

Harmless fun may come back to harm you over the coming weeks.

 Cancer

The widow of an African political leader will offer you $24m sometime this week by email. Also, the CRA has a refund for you ;)

 Leo

Salt Spring has its Southern folk. And it’s Northern folk. But you live mid island… so how do you decide… Gumboots or something less Fulford more Vesuvius.

 Virgo

Wednesday will be a good day for you this month, but which Wednesday, in particular, is a bit hazy, it’s fading, maybe it’s a Thursday? Sorry, the moment has passed.

Someone will approach you today with an attitude you cannot get on with at all. We’re sorry it looks like you also call this person honey…

 Sagittarius

Don’t trust this horoscope. Just don’t - okay?

 Capricorn

Just because something pops into your head does not mean it should come out of your mouth.

 Aquarius

Whilst you may think that this horoscope is completely useless... I have to admit - I have a very guilty secret. You see, all horoscopes are completely useless.

 Pisces

The older you get the more you’re starting to realize that everyone else is an idiot.