Distractions
Opening Saturday, Exposing the edgy side—welcome to The Bone House… Warning: a context of depression, content may be disturbing.
The Road to Wigan Pier
Fine Art Photography
Opening Saturday, Exposing the edgy side—welcome to The Bone House… Warning: a context of depression, content may be disturbing.
The Road to Wigan Pier
Opening Saturday, Revealing a context of depression, foregone inhabitants just walked away, vanished, disappeared—or were maybe escorted away in a straightjacket. Wondering if there was intention to return, but not enough room for one last suitcase, not to mention the piano.
Unhinged
Opening Saturday, Dereliction is an eye on things abandoned: ignored, forgotten, forlorn, fading away, dismissed by our modern predilection for everything new. Following the Ghost Town Trail along obsolete railroads: from Tiny to Biggar, Eastend to Westbend, Smuts to Maidstone. Exploring houses, stores, shops, barns, and churches left to the elements, owls, and racoons. Capturing vignettes of abstract beauty, hidden away in stuff left behind: crackling paint, peeling wallpaper, perishing linoleum, disintegrating vinyl, rusting equipment.
Chinese Junk – New Zealand Scrap
Check out Apex Corrosion’s new web site – featuring a Corrosion as Art page. Apex specializes in cathodic protection – an important safety element of oil and gas pipelines and ships. Canadian Kenworth doesn’t have any protection – Ghost Truck Phantom 309 corroding away at the infamous Ghost Town of Sandon. A truly fitting location to encounter an apparition of the legend of Big Joe and Phantom 309, from Tom Waits “Nighthawks at the Diner” tribute to Red Sovine, written by Tommy Faile. Courtesy of a mysterious scrap metal dealer deep in the foreboding Selkirk mountains of British Columbia. Prospecting with a gold reflector gives the headlights an intangible glow under a brooding sky. http://apexcorrosion.com/Art.asp
Big Joe and Phantom 309
All About Jazz is currently featuring a portfolio of our concert photographs – all abstract, experimental, impressionistic. Several are multiple frame images shot in time with the beat. “The subject of tonight’s lecture is rhythm. The beat. The driving force that holds our lives together. Without rhythm your heart wouldn’t beat. Without direction, without moves, without shades. So tonight we hip-hip, chin-chin….to the rhythm section.” Club des Belugas sic. Frank Sinatra http://photos.allaboutjazz.com/
Mickey Hart
Our research map listed a lot of places to go, things to do, and people to meet. We decided on a more centralized approach: get a B&B for several nights and do forays out to photograph. Hanna was our first stop, try Chevy in the Levy at dawn again – no light at all this time – bust. On to Bindloss, Maidstone, Saskatoon, Canora, Regina, Mossbank, Eastend, and Maple Creek. Pink & Blue Tavern, Flocking Crackle, Blue Fairies, Hamton Hillscape, Red White & Blues, and Blue’s Got the Blues. Canola fields providing a bright yellow backdrop: a house, barn, tractors, a red truck. And the Norman Douglas Shipton residence… The Bone House was gone…
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Saskatchewan Ghost Town Trail
One Week Road Trip Into Southern Alberta
Before heading out to Saskatchewan for five weeks we decided to sweep through the Alberta locations our research had targeted – get them out of the way. We were already familiar with the Drumheller area, and the Atlas #4 Coal Mine National Historic Site, where a Blood Moon was shot. We soon found out there were big empty townships in the middle. But the edges were intriguing: Pink Dreams, Hussar Hardware, Frac’d, Hermes & Aphrodite, Chinook Rainbow, and Field Stone Wall Ruins. We found Chevy in the Levy, but the light was dreary that afternoon. So we elected to return another day and try a dawn shot (2½ h drive out, 4:00 am ETA in mid-summer). The “golden hour” was only 10 minutes, a narrow slit between low and high clouds obscuring the sunrise (yellow version). By the time I got a 10x neutral density filter on, extending the exposure to 30 seconds, the morning light had gone (blue version).
Dereliction – Alberta Sweep
Two Week Reconnaissance Road Trip
We wanted to test the effluent – see if there was enough abandoned dereliction left around to warrant a longer photography expedition. So the adventure began: we hopped in the Jeep and headed south, mostly Saskatchewan ghost towns, for two weeks. We absolutely found stuff: perishing, disintegrating, crackling: Whizz Bang near Val Marie, Looked Like an Egyptian in Robsart, Orkney Oil Slick on Marvin’s Grocery window, The Piano (Has Been Drinking), and The Bone House. We took a side trip to visit the healthy free ranging wild Bison that had been repatriated into Grasslands National Park – what a beautifully rare environment – what a wicked thunderstorm – our poor old tent received a direct red-zone hit…
Reconnaissance
Our latest photography expeditions are being compiled – just in time for Exposure Festival in February.
Dereliction is an eye on things abandoned: ignored, forgotten, forlorn, fading away, dismissed by our modern predilection for everything new.
But first, here’s the plan, Stan: after a two week reconnaissance road trip, one week to sweep southern Alberta, then a five week photography expedition to Saskatchewan – eight weeks on the Ghost Town Trail! Added a few more days and clicks for Chevy in the Levy… Check out our adventure planning map here:
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Prairie Ghost Towns
The Frost Series: Birth
Sunday, February 9th, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Marda Loop @ 2014 – 23rd Avenue SW
Everybody Welcome!
Distractions Opening Saturday, Exposing the edgy side—welcome to The Bone House… Warning: a cont…
Corrosion is Beautiful — Corrosion as Art Check out Apex Corrosion’s new web site – fe…