Ferry Rides
Maximum Exposure – April 17 to 20, 2008
President Exhibition – August 2008 to August 2009
Ryerson University, Faculty of Communication and Design – collection
Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School of Business Management – collection
Bringing one’s understanding of reality into question is the driving force of this body of work. In making these images, I try to escape from the traditional definition of what landscape should look like, and in doing that, explore the possible variations for depicting a scene in respect to elements such as angle of view, time, distance and perspective and reconfiguring their impact on the final image.
The images are composed of several photographs of a specific scene made from a moving ferry ship. The nonlinear movement of the platform in respect to the land provides me with viewpoints that are similar yet completely different from one another. By seamlessly merging these photographs I aim to provide the viewer with a new way to see the land by emphasizing the notion of second or even third look. The final product no longer represents the landscape it originated from. It is the visual representation of my observation of the land.
I imbed my personal vision of the landscape by referring to my memory and applying my observations into the construction of these compositions. These images are meant to represent an experience coming out of a past event. They are not to be seen as documents. They are fragments of time recomposed into a new aesthetic whole. They are inspired by the circumstances at the time of their capture and reflect my vision of a place that I have only observed from a distance.
