le jardin roerich | the roerich garden project

Donald Goodes was a visual-art critic from 1984-1997, with a particular interest in the social role of art. In the late nineties, he consciously began stepping back from the art world. He began working as a Web developer and as an artist. His mock television series Each & Every One of You, produced at the Banff Centre, developed a cult following and has been screened across Canada, in the US and Europe. In the early 00’s he began pursuing an interest in post-peasant cultural identity. His focus is on the personal and social traumas which resulted from the need to renounce centuries of class, cultural and economic peasant traditions in order to become part of the middle class and to access high-culture. His essay Post-Peasant Architecture: The House Bunica Built was published in Informal Architectures in 2008. He is presently exploring how to reconnect our contemporary reality to peasant roots with a trilogy of video scripts. Goodes is also a father and homemaker.