“If Nature is a painting then we are viewers: We look, and our understanding comes through our eyes. The eyes don’t serve as forerunners for the other senses, for touching, tasting, smelling, inhabiting the natural world, but look across the void never to be crossed…We look across a distance at something that is not ourselves and does not include us.”
John Muir, Nature
Cascadian Artifact (top), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
Cascadian Artifact (fall), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
Cascadian Artifact (stone wash), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
Cascadian Artifact (tesseract), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
Cascadian Artifact (nightshade), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
Cascadian Artifact (verdant), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
Cascadian Artifact (refractory), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
Cascadian Artifact (scale), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
Cascadian Artifact (hidden), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
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Blast, archival print, 2019, 137 x 92 cm (54 x 36) inches
View of Cascadia (looking East), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
View of Cascadia (Looking Northwest), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
View of Cascadia (Looking North), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
View of Cascadia (Looking East), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
View of Cascadia (Looking Past), Archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
View of Cascadia (Looking South), archival print, 2019, 92 x 137 cm (36 x 54 inches)
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Valence, archival print, 2019, 137 x 92 cm (54 x 36) inches
The Cascadia project engages the subject of the landscape through historical photography in the public domain. The project focuses on eight seminal photographers, Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Curtis, Major James Skitt Matthews and William John Moore, who photographed the Cascadia region and its inhabitants from Northern California to Southern Alaska.
Sunset, archival print, 2019, 107 x 92 cm (42 x 36 inches)
Nest, archival print, 2019, 107 x 92 cm (42 x 36 inches)
Sunrise, archival print, 2019, 107 x 92 cm (42 x 36 inches)
White Death, archival print, 2019, 107 x 92 cm (42 x 36 inches)
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The project includes analogue and digital photography, interactive video and internet podcasts.
Mirror Image, 2018, archival print, 20 x 35 inches
Artificial Paradise, 2018, archival print, 20 x 35 inches
Up Lake Merced, 2018, archival print, 20 x 35 inches
As the Crow Flies, 2018, archival print, 20 x 35 inches
Teseract, 2018, archival print, 20 x 35 inches
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, 2018, archival print, 20 x 35 inches
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The Cascadia project is integrative, expansive and scalable and endeavors to support the work of a number of contemporary artists and artist collaboratives by producing a database of historical imagery. The project attempts to establish a shared cultural subject, uniting artists in both Canada and the United States by making its research broadly available to the cultural communities of the region.
