Huxley, Alberta Charles Stankievech   dedicated to Leo + Ken Stankievech
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		Fold Here: L = 1/6πd (2n+4) (2n-1) or W = πd2 3/2 (n-1) by Shawn Petsche [ Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue "Compression" ]   Charles Stankievech's Paper Prairies work engages a dying prairie archetype: the wooden grain elevator. The way in which his tiny game piece-like structure folds up out of its own paper landscape, casting a four-directional eulogizing shadow on the 'land,' highlights how the shift in architecture towards steel mega-structures reflects an equal shift in Prairie economic identity; from family farms to corporate operations. Though the conceptual framings of this work are fertile, perhaps the most striking aspect of Stankievech's work is the object itself. It stands defiantly atop the plane it owes its existence to, not unlike the way in which man himself holds a dramatic vertical presence in the horizontal world of the Prairies.