{"product_id":"promises-kept-9798889105251","title":"Promises Kept","description":"\u003cp\u003ePromises Kept transcends the typical art book, melding elements of autobiography, biography, and regional cultural history into a profound exploration of artistic meaning. Its unveiling has the potential to quietly, insistently, prompt a re-examination of Newfoundland Labrador's (NL) cultural and artistic landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the symbolic heart of this contemplative volume, but holding out in Scott Fillier's private back garden is an artist's easel in steel, being slowly oxidised by the elements. Gifted him in 1998, the easel became less utilitarian and more a sculptural experience as it filtered the artist's newly adopted Ontario landscape qualities through its brutally forged angles and joints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a moment of profound inspiration, c. 2000, Filli?re draped the easel with a single link of rusting chain, elevating it instantly into austere metaphor, projecting something of the artist's own Prometheus Bound fate, while retaining artistic commitments: promises faithfully fulfilled, wherever\/whatever the circumstance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFilli?re:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eFilli?re, born in Roddickton, NL., Canada, 1939, is, despite \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea lifetime devoted to his art; despite his scores of superb artworks \u003cbr\u003ein drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, and music \u003cbr\u003eas documented within these pages-is without the most modest \u003cbr\u003erecognition in his province, and, despite these polymath talents, \u003cbr\u003ewithout any regional or national presence whatsoever. \u003cbr\u003ePromises Kept addresses many of the reasons why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austin Macauley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325248569618,"sku":"9798889105251","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5042beb7-3a32-40e2-bca8-ab45aace43fb.jpg?v=1748722532","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/promises-kept-9798889105251","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}