I have always been fascinated by the built environment. For the last 20 years I have photographed the interiors of urban remains – seeking beauty in lapsed places, and building fictions about who might have once occupied them. Trespassing through abandoned spaces and places informed me about: industry, capitalism, constructions of faith, institutional behaviours, and poverty.
“Desire Lines”, examines human activity and our impact(s) on the land at the intersection of the sublime landscape and the urban/built environment – where the sublime meets the interests of capitalism and consumption.
These images examine the vulnerability of the environment and are a visualization of how the Southwestern Ontario landscape is being colonized from a perspective that is invisible from the everyday vantage point of people. The aerial point of view reveals the activities at the locations and what the current desire for land looks like at the boundaries of urban communities and the wilderness.
