Absent Currents (installation, 2025)
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
8 page zine / walking tour map
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?
Created and exhibited as part of the 2024–2025 Media Arts Scholarship program at the Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS.
