Linda Covit

Hearing the Forest, 1999
wood, steel, photos
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist

The artist wishes to thank by CALQ (Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec) and Le Centre Est-Nord-Est for assistance in producing Hearing the Forest.

Linda Covit’s sculpture Hearing the Forest, is inspired by an ancient forest in Japan. The central feature is an eight-foot, horizontal wooden cone that is directed at Wave Hill’s woodland. The viewer steps up to the small end and hears the subtle sounds that vibrate from the stone floor and plaster walls. The installation includes a black and white photograph that was taken during the winter at Mount Koya in Japan, the sacred home of the Shingon Buddhist monastery, which is surrounded by a primordial forest.  This project was begun during a residency at Le Centre Est-Nord-Est, Quebec, with funding from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Covit has shown in solo exhibitions at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan; Gallery K in Tokyo, Japan; Gallery Nanoriumin in Fuji, Japan; Circa in Montreal, Canada, and at the Koffler Gallery in Toronto, Canada. She has created public works in Canada and in the U.S., including the Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis, Maryland (2000); Thought for a Forest (1995) in Parc Marie-Victorin in Longueuil, Quebec; and Nature Stations (1992) in Cité de la Santé à Laval in Quebec, Canada. She has received several grants from the Canada Council since 1979, and an award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1990. Covit received her B.S. from McGill University in Montreal.