Absent Currents (installation, 2025)
Freshwater Brook flowed across Kuowa’qamikt (the Halifax Peninsula) until the late Victorian era, when it was buried underground. Absent Currents is a video installation work that reconstructs this phantom landmark through the textual sediments it left behind.
Natural-dyed fabric and eco-processed 16mm film connect these archival flickers with the material traces of the brook that remain. What does it mean to lose a body of water, and in what ways are we still navigating the landscapes we’ve cast off?
Two-channel video installation, 20:00
Digital video, 16mm film scans, two-channel audio
Hand-dyed cotton fabric, dowels
Fabric dyed and film processed with sumac, alder, oak, and iron
Walking tour map takeaway
Installed in All Saints Cathedral for Nocturne Halifax, October 2025
Above: installation photos by Greg Ellison.
Installed at Centre for Art Tapes, Imagined Territory exhibition, April 2025
Takeaway zine created for Centre for Art Tapes exhibition
