A new open-ended project generated with public participation by artist Nadia Myre

In 2005 Nadia Myre began a long-term exploration of how people describe their pain, hurt, healing, and scars with a needle and thread, and paper and pen.  What emerged was The Scar Project, a viewer participatory open-lab/installation/exhibition where individuals could sit and ‘sew their wounds’, literal or metaphorical, on one of the canvases provided, and recount whether or not their scars could heal.  This work, which consists of over to 500  scarred and sewn canvases and accompanying stories, documents a multitude of voices from all walks of life and age ranges.

In anticipation of a solo exhibition in 2011 at La Maison des Artistes Visuels Francophone in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Myre proposes TheForgiveness Project (Pardoner Moi), a new open-ended art project where people anonymously send via email, post or online comment, things (ideas/words) they would like to be forgiven for. With these collected words (and her own) Nadia Myre will work with a printmaker/typographer to create printed lists of words and ideas documenting what people seek forgiveness for.

Texts/words can be sent in anonymously or not. All languages are welcome, however they must accompany translations if they are not in English or French.

To participate go to the FORGIVENESS PROJECT BLOG and leave a comment by clicking the add comment link at the bottom of the page. Your comments can be signed anonymously with a fictitious name and email account. When making your comment please start the sentence with the words FORGIVE MY... / PARDONER...

Alternately, you can send a letter or postcard to:

La Maison des artistes visuels francophones

(Nadia Myre: Forgiveness Project)

219, boul Provencher,

Winnipeg, MB R2H 0G4