This publication coincides with the exhibition Flight held at the Owens Art Gallery from 3 March to 16 April 2006.

Flight, an exhibition featuring the work of Quebec artist Josée Dubeau and Ontario artist Frank Shebageget addresses themes of homelessness, flight, and return in a series of beautiful and evocative artworks.

The curator of the exhibition, Emily Falvey, notes that stories of home tend to be extremely complicated and often filled with passionate contradictions. Josée Dubeau’s delicate drawings of houses and buildings lost and floating in space, and Frank Shebageget’s painstakingly made models of his childhood home and Beaver float planes, explore how our living spaces and communities are affected, formed and changed by architectural order, modes of transportation, and economic shifts. Beneath the patterns of these social factors, their work reveals a conflicted emotional space — the confused uncertainty in which homesickness tangles with the desire to be free.