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"The artwork chosen for the front cover of the book is a 2016 piece by Ottawa-based artist Kenneth Emig titled “A View from Two Sides,” on the Adàwe Crossing on the Rideau River, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Figures 1, 2, and 3). Adàwe is an Algonquin word which means trade. Emig defines the piece as a kinetic observatory, and in his own words:
“The original call for submissions required an artwork that would connect both neighbourhoods, both sides of the Rideau River. The spheres reflect into one another. There are many contrasting scenes and views available, for example, comparing the surrounding environment to the concentrated image of the environment in the spheres or the sky and the water. There are also no sides on a sphere. What are the two sides?”
Indeed there are no sides to a sphere and what conversely emerges is a kinetic contiguity of place and continuity of time suggesting that we cannot fragment or segment the land or its people from the stories in place; there is however a multidirectionality, as a result of a multicultural society and diversity of backgrounds."