Mapping the Land and Body is a series of 15 paintings featuring large-scale, full-body portraits, that are embedded with maps, diagrams and text, and explore the embodiment of land and place and address the impacts of settler history, colonialism, industry and modern progress on the natural environment.

Overlaid with maps, scientific diagrams and texts, like full-body tattoos, the bodies of these iconic figures become sites of past and present, ecological, post-colonial, social and political inquiry. These figures are presented, too, as specimens to be examined, illustrating the history of human interaction and currency with the land, and positioning humanity as implicit in the ecological impacts of progress on the environment and natural species. Embodied with the facts, geography and history of the land, Kennedy’s figures also emphasize that we are not separate from the land and its creatures – human impacts on nature are impacts upon ourselves.
                                                                                      — Jennifer McRorie Curator/Director Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery