Open air photography
on most Wednesdays from 10am -12 pm, City of Victoria Artist in Residence Kemi Craig and I can be found at the Photodynamic Garden at Wark Street Commons located on unceded Lkwungen territory. We’re garden…
Photodynamic Gardening Workshop
I’ve been invited to present a Photodynamic Gardening Workshop in June in the Hudson Valley, New York, at Bard College Farm and Studio Kipp in Rhinebeck. This two-day workshop will experiment with building community gardens…
A continuous slow movement (drift camera)
Through the process of erasure, dispossession and construction that industrial forestry relies upon, forests are created as trees, logs and timber, harvested, moved into water, and transported to sort yards for processing.
Studies for Making and Unmaking
A 15 minute film loop that brings together digital and analogue archives into projections and performances. Making and unmaking encounters, curved by gusting winds, the squeak of technological breakdown, and the distortion of projections on paper.
Anarchival materiality
Anarchival materiality within archives is an ongoing research-creation project that documents the generative force of entropy in archives. The force of molecular transformation, violence, displacement, and other human and non-human agencies render archival materials as fugitives, both eluding and driving preservation.
Linnet Lake
Watch the video footage here The impermanent return: Photography, protected areas and the matter of Linnet Lake. This is a film still from Lake Linnet, in Waterton Lakes National Park. The film still shows…
Pup Tent Camera Obscura
Pup Tent Camera Obscura is a repurposed 1970s/80s McKinley A-frame tent modified to be completely dark inside and fitted with a set of simple lenses on one end. Inside the room the lens projects the world outside onto the walls of the room and onto hand-held paper.
Conduit: Open Space
Using the central skylight in a gallery as a starting point, Jamie Drouin and I direct frequencies into the Open Space Arts Society space using simple lenses, mirrors and antennae. (2011-2013).
Conduit
A modified swing-lens Kodak Panoram broken and rebuilt to reconsider the interface between time and space in photographic embodiments.
Finding Aid
An ongoing performed archive and exhibitions (2009-) documenting the productive failure of re-enactments of photographs in mountain environments of Canadian National Parks.