There are secrets the Labrador land and sky reveal from distant places and eras, in a place where wilderness is so vast and its historical industrial area is slowly given space for traditions and cultural flourishment, Byrne’s art reflects the push of a mining town set in a land filled with the unique beauty of the northern lights “If we close our eyes, we can almost hear their echoed whispers in the razored cold. If we open our hearts, we can mould them into what the earth imagines it could become in our hands.” Labrador West ceramic artist Marty Byrne combines the beauty of the land with hints of its past and the current industrialized reality, Labrador erratic plays on and the unevenness of patterns and movement that shaped the people and the land that surrounds him.