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Debbie McCarthy came to Halifax from Ottawa. She makes these beautiful paintings that look like old linoleum floors. She suspends herself over a canvas stapled to the floor and pours, drips and swirls wet paints around to replicate the look of old linoleum. I like the idea that she is reproducing the vernacular. There are workers in Linoleum factories in Scotland making the same paintings with linseed oil and pigments backing them on burlap and selling them for your floor.