Leonard Schlichting
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Embarkation
These photographs were initially shown singly as part of 'Embarkation' an assemblage of ten images in an exhibition of the Toronto Island Artists Collective in 1992, and later in a group show called 'Persistent Documents' that was organized by Gallery 44.

This work was prompted by a move to Ward's Island after many other moves over a short space of time with the hope of finding a place to settle.

For many people life is a never-ending quest to find a home, a community they can belong to, a place of permanence. We are like a vessel in a body of water that is always subject to the forces of nature; our direction and destiny may be altered by will or circumstances at any time.