Artworks
Photography (pigment print on cotton rag paper)
My series, This Old Broken Back of Mine, documents the landscape of labour in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, where I grew up. The places shown in this series are industrial labour sites and forest regions, both of which have been integral to B.C.’s cultural identity and economy since colonization. The Western landscape has long been documented with a lens that sees a myth of opportunity and promise. My work show contemporary realities of the compulsively perpetuated myth of the West, now in decline, and the ruin of industry it has left.