Reed Weir- Watersmeet

A meeting place of two rivers—distinct in origin, yet drawn together by the pull of shared terrain.

Watersmeet is a series of casein paintings created in response to the poem Shelf Life by Mori McCrae. The connection is not one of illustration, nor a formal duet, but of currents converging—each carrying its own histories, rhythms, and sediment of meaning.

Mori and Reed first crossed paths as students at the Ontario College of Art and Design before embarking on separate careers in distinctly different geographies—Reed in Newfoundland and Labrador, Mori in Ontario. Reed’s eventual return to Ontario became a search for a point of confluence: a way to bridge past and present, to find a familiar bend in the river of place and memory.

In Watersmeet, painting and poetry inhabit shared waters. The exhibition may be experienced as individual works, each standing on its own, or as a collective journey in which the poem serves as a touchstone for the creative process.