‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎“Canadiana: Series of Speculations” scrutinizes Canadian art and literature and presents the steadily present and major themes of Canadiana. The individual topics within the project alternate between analyses of literature and art, with consolidated theses of art pieces by the accompaniment of Canadian biographies. From this exploration, themes of condition, identity, and delusion demonstrate how Canadiana’s expressions of these issues are mere compromises to reality. While their status as conjectures make them inaccurate in comparison to the truth, in humanity’s desperate attempt for embodying the inexpressible and putting into words the indescribable, the bare glimpses of the complexity of humanity from the works of art and literature are sufficient in fulfilling their purpose.

‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎For Canadian artists and writers who continue to explore and publish works based on issues of the human condition, they must be aware that there is an unceasing journey lying ahead, with themselves being their own only lasting, mortal partner. Understanding that even the most profound attempts to dissect, interpret, and express human relationships on all scales of magnitudes should awaken people to understand that while the experience that mankind endures is unique and individual to mankind alone, they cannot put into words or fully express by art the dimension of feeling and perception in which they exist. The physical and emotional realities of being able to pinch one’s own flesh and feel a sense of overwhelming sadness or joy are as far as we can go, which is to describe. Just as the retelling of an experience is not the experience itself, the descriptions of relationships and conditions of humanity are not the relationships and conditions themselves. They are noble attempts of man to take complete control over the actualities of life, because when beings can embody every detail and truth of their existence in a form where it is sharable with others, then they have complete authority of essence and nature. Canadians contribute with great fortitude to this series of speculations that make up not only Canadian literature, but global texts of the so-called “complete” truth.