Planting trees in Manitoba is a rite of passage for many young adults in Canada. Johnson has participated in this activity and has made it the subject of this project in which she combines photographs she shot during the course of her summer sojourns, and sculptural figures and groups in constructed tableaux which are built later. The result is a fusing of the immediate images captured while in the moment with constructed images derived from memory and photo- graphic record. She feels that these two ways of picture-making depend on each other to flesh out the entire event and strengthen the aesthetic suspension of disbelief in the viewer.

Image: Sarah Anne Johnson, Group Portrait, 2005.