Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20In no particular order: making, finding, choosing, examining, and organizing are the fundamental activities that orient the work of Robin Hill. She has always identified as a sculptor, traditionally an artist who makes objects, but over time has embraced an approach that asserts equivalence between what she makes and what already exists.   A 2004 solo exhibition, Multiplying the Variations, featured works in which Hill organized numerous handmade elements in one way or another. For example, Concretion is composed of one hundred plaster casts, stacked horizontally; a related work had a hundred similarly shaped elements of wax on wood, organized into a ten-by-ten grid on the wall.   The exhibition also included Beach Debris, an installation incorporating objects that the artist found, rather than made, in a newly purposeful way. The work revolved around rusted metal stove parts found on the beach near her Cape Breton home. In addition to a series of cyanotypes made by placing the items on light-sensitized paper, the collection itself was part of the installation. She had long used found or ready-made forms in her cyanotypes—for example orange peels, plastic grocery bags or full-scale trees—but including the found objects themselves in the installation became a new aspect of her work.   Mica Fiche was included in Case Discussions, Hill’s exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg in 2011. A tiny, translucent mica washer was placed in a microfiche reader, a now obsolete device used to magnify and project microfilm of printed texts. The enlarged image of the washer resembles an eye, seemingly gazing at the viewer. She did nothing but place two elements in relation to each other, and found a new way to express an appreciation of what it means to look at something.   In the current exhibition, There Was, there are a number of new things Hill wants viewers to see. One is a charred wooden chair. Another is an abandoned house in the process of collapsing in on itself, recorded in a monumental