Geotrope Video

Click here to watch a video about my show Geotrope, which closes this Saturday at Alternator Centre For Contemporary Art in Kelowna, BC!

Geotrope Opens at Alternator Centre

My exhibition Geotrope opens today at Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in Kelowna! The show runs from January 31st-March 15th. I will be present for the opening reception on February 15th. If you happen to be in the area, come check it out! Click here for details.

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.

New In Progress Work

A projection of several images I've been shooting over the course of my trip for my zoetrope project.

Some new pinhole images I made during my residency at Roberts Street Social Centre in Halifax.

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: