Daniel Bosch is a wildfire lookout in Northern Alberta, Canada. Every day, from April to October, he looks out upon the treetops from the eight-by-eight-foot cabin of the tallest tower in the province. Dan is also a self-taught musician. While living in the woods, he crafted a cello from a solid block of spruce and then taught himself to play it. Because the cello was too big to fit in the cage of the tower’s one hundred and twenty vertical steps, Dan made a body-less version, allowing him to practice during his many hours inside the tower’s cabin. By wedging the practice cello between the edge of a small worktable and the cabin’s fibreglass octagonal cupola, Dan discovered that he could more than compensate for the instrument’s lack of a body. The cabin itself becomes the resonant chamber, and the tower becomes the instrument within which the cellist plays. Now, the lookout tower broadcasts Dan’s music into the immensity of the landscape and the trees become his audience. 

Miruna Drăgan

Miruna Drăgan lives alongside Akokiniskway (the Rosebud River) and teaches in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) on Treaty 7 territory. With an intuitive approach, her work responds to observed synchronicities through a broad range of methods and materials, toward a subjective reimagining of archetypal myths and landscapes. Drăgan’s works come through in dreams or visions, reflecting themes of dispersion and transcendence, both as individual pieces and collectively within immersive environments, while offering themselves as new tools for divination or metaphysics. Recent exhibition venues include Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto (2023), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and Museo Regional de Querétaro (2022), Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (2021), and Living Art Museum in Reykjavík (2019). Drăgan’s work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, and the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts).

Jason de Haan

Jason de Haan is an artist settled in the Alberta Badlands on Treaty 7 territory. Working responsively and according to various encountered conditions, de Haan’s projects explore resonance, broadcast, deep time, unseen forces, residuals, synchronicity, and activation. His practice is diverse, with a wide and increasingly multidisciplinary approach to sculpture, collage, drawing, photography, video, text, and book works. de Haan received an MFA from Bard College in 2015. Past exhibition venues include Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2025); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Querétaro (2022); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2021); Kling & Bang, Reykjavík (2019); Esker Foundation, Calgary (2017); and MASS MoCA, North Adams (2016). His work has been reviewed in Canadian Art Magazine, Art in America, and Art Forum. In 2020, de Haan was co-awarded the Sobey Art Award, representing the Prairies and the North.