Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix

Authors

  • Catherine Bush University of Guelph

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-15128

Abstract

The author, a Canadian novelist, goes to Venice to attend the Biennale Arte 2024, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson, only to encounter extreme-rain warnings. She wrestles with how to view art under these conditions and the question of what kind of attention we need to bring to art and the troubled, troubling world around us.

Author Biography

  • Catherine Bush, University of Guelph

    Catherine Bush is the author of the story collection Skin (2025) and five novels, including Blaze Island (2020) and the best-selling The Rules of Engagement (2000), a New York Times Notable Book. Her nonfiction has been published in journals such as Emergence and Noema, and she has fiction forthcoming in the volume Climatic Subjects (2025). She was the 2024 writer-in-residence at the Rachel Carson Center. An associate professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph, she lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Published

27-05-2025

Issue

No. 7 (2025)

Section

Articles

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