The Pulse Project

Artist Bruce Thomas set out on a North American Tour tour in search of answers for his PULSE Landscape Project. A work in progress, Thomas challenges the historical landscape perspective and uncovers a new approach to traditional landscape painting through the eyes of a growing multi-cultural mediascape. Traveling across North American , Thomas interviews people along the way to document their perspective on what defines the quintessential Landscape. Using this research to form the foundation of this multi-media project, Thomas will begin to form the new landscape identity. “The North American landscape identity most of us relate to is Tom Thomson’s famous, West Wind painting. World-wide The Group of Seven have always embodied the most identifiable landscapes. Now that we’re coming up on 100 years since Thomson created his first landmark paintings, I wondered where we now stand in terms of visual identity “says Thomas. PULSE Project incorporates sound, video and paintings to express and explore Thomas’s experiences traveling across North American . Talking with a diverse representation of the population about what it means to be creative in North American today will be starting point for the project. These collected interviews, field recordings and drawings will then be compiled and transformed into a series of large-scale mixed media compositions. “I believe this form of integrated, journalistic, intrepretive media has the potential to produce new hybrid art forms, which will encourage innovative practices and ultimately break new ground in terms of understanding our rapidly evolving national identity, “ says Thomas. As a multi-disciplined artist and graduate of Concordia University, Thomas has also worked for more than 10 years in the music, film and art industry . Today, he draws upon this experience as inspiration for his most recent collection of paintings.