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Derek Besant
Instructor
BFA (University of Calgary)
Drawing

Introduction
My work looks to subject matter that leaves the fingerprint, falls between the pages, is found in the memoirs of phantom limbs and locating missing persons, forgotten things.

The conversations I have between film and sound, looking and seeing, seeking and losing the thread, are dialogues that I map out my practical studio routes upon.

I've made art in my Alberta studio, under bridges in Venice, a tower in Mexico, a balcony in London, and rooftops in Buenos Aires.

I collaborate with composers, poets, engineers and architects on things that hang in the air like smoke. I write volumes of notes and publish under another identity. Everything is in motion.

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