In 2009, I came across an early and obscure earthwork of Richard Serra’s titled Shift (1971). The work lies 45 minutes north of Toronto, in the region of King City. My wife Jessica visited the site and shot a series of pictures. At that time, it was owned by a developer that wanted to subdivide the land and build a bedroom community. It is an intriguing work that indexes the rise and fall of the glacial moraine landscape through a series of rising and falling concrete walls. I am often interested in these sites that are at once brutal and bucolic. The concrete walls are now home to mosses and lichens and seems remarkably resilient.

The image that I have chosen for this contribution is a portrait on one of the Serra walls that is overlaid with washes of turmeric that fill the frame and take it over. Turmeric is a spice that has incredible properties for healing and reducing inflammation. Like the economy of Serra’s concrete slabs, both have a medicinal quality for clearing the extraneous. Since my visit, my father and I have been involved with helping to preserve and protect this work.

Jed Lind lives and works in Los Angeles and has exhibited widely in North America and abroad. He has shown at such notable venues as the Power Plant Museum, Wignall Museum, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Pitzer Art Galleries, Laguna Art Museum and Steve Turner Contemporary. Recent Exhibitions include Site as Symbol at FOCA in Los Angeles, Worlds Outside this One, curated by Erin Elder in New Mexico and the travelling exhibit Suspended Between Laughter and Tears which features eight artists in conjunction with a retrospective of the late Bas Jan Ader’s work, currently on view at the Museuo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico. Lind also recently received a major public commission from the Toronto Sculpture Garden as they celebrate their 30th Anniversary. He has upcoming solo projects with Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in Toronto and Pepin Moore in Los Angeles. Jed Lind received his M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, and his B.F.A from Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. Jed Lind is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in Canada.