loss and destruction

This work examines the loss and transformation of space and place in the last 100 years, to reflect on circulations and patterns of nature through loss, destruction and decay. This installation reflects on the life cycles of human migrations and infrastructure with the natural environment. All people are affected by the concept of loss as it impacts our relationship to place, people and those exchanges. We experience the organic relationship of the waterway that over time is destroyed by the river lots that mark settlement in London, Ontario. Our natural environment is littered with examples of the creation of cities advancing a settlement growth and development at the same time the planet is bursting with people that are displaced. The imprint of the lots in the riverbed could be carbon copies of any Canadian city as many of them built through this process. Bringing to light the shifting of the land which is tied to our past histories of how space is mapped out and destroyed.