Seven individual installations made from bronze, stainless steel, rock and rope. The collection of artworks is called “Lacuna, or a missing piece”. “Freedom as Hope over Distance and Spectre” depicts a scale with a boulder on one side, and a locked bird cage on the other, both perfectly balanced. Inside the rock is a scope which you can look through to see the hidden second part of this installation, “Spectre.” Turning the rock towards the right of the oceanfront, a raven can be spotted on a pole. The raven has a key in its mouth—the key to the cage balanced on the scale.
Maskull Lasserre has a BFA (Visual Art and Philosophy) and an MFA (Sculpture) from Mount Allison and Concordia Universities respectively. He has taught drawing and sculpture at the California College of Art, Concordia, York, Quest, and Emily Carr universities. His work appears on Canadian coinage and has been exhibited internationally at Banksy’s Dismaland, and the Museum of Art and Design in New York amongst others.
