In this exhibition, the mechanical language of industry is asked to co-exist with spiralling and heart- shaped sentimentality of popular culture in the form of text-based drawings, watercolours and needle-point stitching. Austin activates an artistic position that can neither be called dry conceptualism nor wet expressionism. In this work we find a dialogue between instinct and intellect that ultimately visualizes a labour of love. Accenting this first survey of Austin’s practice will be new work produced for the West Vancouver Museum that emerges out of Austin’s interest and research into the iron bridges that connect the North Shore not only to other land masses, but other histories.