Low Tide
Low Tide is a single channel video (Video-essay) that weaves together a series of pinhole photographs taken during a residency period at Maison d’Ariane, situated within the tidal landscapes of Métis-sur-Mer, Québec. The work reflects on the intertidal zone as a metaphor for the subconscious, migration, and states of impermanence. A tussle between stillness and motion, Low Tide invites viewers to contemplate the shifting boundaries of place, memory, and identity, evoking the rhythms of arrival, departure, and transformation.
The house tilts
To break the linear narrative of movement, to make it fiction,
asking whether we first slid into the frame or shied away from it,
slowly
This series of pinhole photographs were taken in the context of a month-long artist residency in Métis-sur-mer. The absence of a lens and extended exposure time are characteristic of the pinhole technique. What I offer are impressions; of the tidal landscapes of the St. Lawrence River, the delicate pulse of the Reford Gardens, and the passage of light through the historic Maison d’Ariane. Time dissolves—merging past and present, the seen and the sensed, the ethereal and the ephemeral.
Courtesy of RBC Maison d'Ariane Artist Residency
