Maligne Canyon Series, 2017
These silkscreen prints are made from digital collages, primarily using the clone stamp tool in photoshop. Some portions of the original images were left unchanged and other parts were rendered and distorted. They are representations of real places, and of forms which mimic them. The final collage was bitmapped for the printing stencil. The images experiment with the interaction of digital and analog forms, and what an incongruence, error or glitch can mean for either spaces. The compositions follow a non-linear process embracing chance and circumstances.
Maligne Canyon is a tourism hotbed in Jasper National park, and the angles photographed for these prints have likely been photographed hundreds of thousands of times. The reproduction of images has a tangible affect on the environments portrayed, and the way people engage with them.