Description
IOTA artist Lou Sheppard is thinking about the magnetic pull to the North in this graphic score “Magnetic Orientation, Fraser-Skagit Flock”.
This powerful digital print edition is from a work in progress about Richmond’s Snow Geese- known as the Fraser Skagit Flock. These geese navigate by the earth’s magnetic field returning to the same place each migration. As they travel the geese use a process kind of like declination with a compass, where they sense magnetic north and navigate relative to it.
Here, Lou thinks about how they sense the magnetic pull of north and how they keep course by maintaining that tension. They have designed a kind of harp, which traces the geese migration and is strung to North, as a way of sounding that tension. The artist hopes to make the instrument some day soon, ideally as an aolian harp that could sit outside and be played by the wind.
Related Works

Lou Sheppard, Murmurations (II)
Edition of 100
15.75” W x 16.5” H x 3.5” D
4.5 ounce lightweight cotton with cotton webbed handles
100% Natural cotton processed AZO-Free, with no hazardous chemicals
15% of proceeds are being donated to Feed Nova Scotia

Lou Sheppard, A Strong Desire (diptych), 2018
Includes:
Direction Score, (black) silkscreen and Movement Score, (white)
Both: Silkscreen, 14″x14″, Stonehenge fine art paper
Edition of 15

Lou Sheppard, Murmurations (I)
Fuji Crystal Archive Super PD Lustre digital print
18“x 24″, Edition of 10
Edition of 15 silkscreen available – Contact gallery for info

Lou Sheppard, Magnetic Orientation, 2019
Fuji Crystal Archive Super PD Lustre digital print
10“x 10″, Edition of 10
Edition of 15 silkscreen available – Contact gallery for info

Lou Sheppard, Pas de deux (diptych), 2019
Fuji Crystal Archive Super PD Lustre digital print
17 “x 11″, Edition of 10
Edition of 15 silkscreen available – Contact gallery for info

Lou Sheppard, Crepuscular Rhythms, 2019
Fuji Crystal Archive Super PD Lustre digital print
11 “x 17″, Edition of 10
Edition of 15 silkscreen available – Contact seller for info