from the catalog “Animism and the Colonial Imagination”
"...Works displayed by Janet Cook-Rutnik…are more interested in the artifacts and architectural remains of the plantation, cane bills and sugar mills specifically, and the contemporary narratives that surround them. Cook-Rutnik’s ‘Cane Bills’ consists of a series of three image transfers on the titular agricultural tools. The transfers are of an 18th-century painting by Agostini Brunias, an exoticized vision of an apparently untroubled, prosperous Creole society in Dominica. The cane bills as canvas return the erased labor, the sharpness and edges, to the picture. …"
- David Knight, Jr.
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