UAAC Poster Session

I have some work up at The Banff Centre this week. University Art Association of Canada Poster Session. Interesting Concept.

Geotrope

I have finally finished my zoetrope and documented it, for my project now aptly named Geotrope. Below are some photos and there is a video of it on my website as well.

16 Trees

The third of my "averaging" images. Trees from across North America.

Average of 20 Landscape Photos

A composite of many parts of the North American landscape.

Roadtrip Complete

Finally back home from my roadtrip. This is the route it ended up to be.

Roadtrip!

I am going on an enormous road trip during August, September and October! Anticipated itinerary: Vancouver, BC >> Portland, OR >> Crater Lake, OR >> Craters of the Moon, ID >> Grand Teton, WY >> Yellowstone, WY >> Badlands, SD >> Chicago, IL >> Roller Coasters in Ohio >> Pennsylvania >> New York, NY >> Oh Canada show @ MassMOCA >> Rhode Island >> Some places in New England/Maritimes >> Halifax, NS (art show) >> Cape Breton, NS >> Newfoundland (residency) >> Labrador >> A ghost town, Northern Quebec >> Montreal, QC, >> Toronto, ON >> Unplanned areas along Highway 1 Ontariomanitobasaskatchewanalbertabcawesome >> Vancouver, BC

Zoetrope Project

An upcoming project I will be working on:

Landscape Composites is a series of stop-motion projections created by spinning zoetropes, depicting natural landscapes. The zoetropes will contain 4”x5” sheets of colour transparency film that portray gradual changes in the landscape across North America. I will be shooting these images during a road trip through Canada and the US this summer, from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS. I plan to isolate certain parts of the scenery: the horizon, roads and road signs, both urban and rural. I will shoot these subjects at even intervals over the course of the trip, so as to catalogue the way they change across the continent. Once the film sheets are placed within the zoetropes, there will be a light in the middle of each zoetrope, which will project the film sheets onto the wall. The spinning zoetropes will make the images blend together, creating looping animations of the changes in the scenery as depicted in each image. I was on Pender Island last month and shot a few test images on Fuji Velvia film, which I plan to use for the project:

Here is a mock-up of the three images blended together, emulating what they might look like through the spinning zoetrope:

Solo Exhibition!

An exhibition of colour prints and a video installation, attempting to address the mystery and inscrutability of the natural world.

Olympics in Vancouver

A photo I took of these spotlights that were in the sky in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics. 20 minute exposure, from the Burrard Bridge.