Jason Baerg’s Authors and Antidotes took inspiration from the medicine wheel - an inclusive ground for all people of the red, yellow, black and white nations. The installation featured a series of works that concentrated specifically on red and yellow or black and white. Black and white in the medicine wheel represent the body and soul, while red and yellow represent the mental and emotional. 

This work was developed during the 2009 Indigital Residency at the Alternator during which Baerg created a series of writings on healing that was both personal and for the community at large. These writings were then abstracted into the symbols that appear throughout the exhibition, invoking intuitive responses. 

Jason Baerg is a Toronto-based Cree Métis artist raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from Rutgers University. As a visual artist, he pushes new boundaries in digital interventions in drawing, painting, and new media installation. Notable international solo exhibitions include the Luminato Festival in Toronto, Canada, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, and the Digital Dome at the Institute of the American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Baerg has sat on numerous art juries and won awards through such facilitators as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and The Toronto Arts Council.

For more information about Baerg’s work, visit his website.