Marlene Creates

	Live-art Media A Virtual Walk of The Boreal Poetry Garden In the last few years, inspired by the 6 acres of boreal forest where I'm living in Newfoundland, I've ventured into new realms: site-specific poetry and in situ performance.
	Night Walk: Boreal Poetry Garden a film by Elizabeth Zetlin 5 minutes This docu-poem follows Newfoundland artist Marlene Creates, lit only by flashlight, on a walk through her Portugal Cove boreal forest to the Blast Hole Pond River. Along the way, she stops to read poems conceived at these sites. Words meld into forest, trip down paths, flow into river, where inspiration lurks like a moose. –Liz Zetlin
	The Tolt, the Droke and the Blast Hole Pond River with Marlene Creates part of Landscape as Muse, a documentary series by Ian Toews, 291 Film Company, broadcast on Bravo! TV Available from 291 Film Company. Marlene Creates lives just outside St. John's, Newfoundland. Her home backs onto an expansive natural forest and a river that originates in the Blast Hole Pond. With Marlene we survey this land from (to use Newfoundland vernacular) the top of the tolt, down through the droke, and into the Blast Hole Pond River. Marlene's art is woven into this landscape: a mixture of poetry, photography, installation, and observation — her work meticulously analyses our connection to nature. By paying attention, by collecting images and stories, and by seeing, Marlene elucidates personal moments in the natural world. –291 Film Company See also: CBC Artspots.