Speaker Bio:Sgt Peter Larsen

Speaks:

English

Speaking Topics:

Canadian Armed Forces, Careers, Conflict in Afghanistan

Member of the Canadian Armed Forces since 2004; Deployments to Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2006; multiple locations across Europe on sovereignty and Anti-piracy operations. Resource Management Clerk by trade; currently the Chief Clerk of 5th Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Aldershot, NS. Willing to speak on a myriad of topics, from operational experience, daily life, family life, career expectations.

The Memory Project includes a community of over 1,500 veterans and Canadian Forces members who are committed to sharing their stories of service.To see the Thing Itself: the influence of early object loss on the life and art of Edward Weston.
Using journals, letters, dreams, early memories, and anniversary phenomena as a clinical data base, an attempt has been made to demonstrate how Edward Weston sought to master the psychic trauma imposed at age 5 by the death of his mother through the medium of photography. His photographic artistry came to dominate his entire life, with nature acting as a symbolic maternal substitute and supplying him with a wealth of material for his work. The circumscribed image of his mother's eyes during her last days, the only recollection he had of her, was a crucial element in his becoming a photographer, whose camera was his one constant love attachment.