Apple Obscura

Onya Hogan-Finlay

Rochford Square

Apple Obscura is an interactive sculpture that features a giant inflatable apple-shaped camera obscura suspended from a handmade 18' tapered apple ladder that offers an upside-down view of our surroundings.

Onya Hogan-Finlay (born 1977, Fredericton, NB) is an interdisciplinary artist of settler ancestry. Her current work and ongoing creative research for Apples & Oranges: Unearthing the Roots of Introduced Fruit to North America cites apples and oranges as tools of colonial agrarian settlement and traces agricultural activities in so-called Nova Scotia and Southern California through sculpture and drawings. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Southern California. Onya relocated to Miꞌkmaꞌki / Nova Scotia from Los Angeles in 2019 where she and her partner now farm sea salt (Ok Sea Salt) in the LaHave Islands.

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