Doorways, Pockmarked Wall

Near Kamloops, BC (Artist Statement)

Doorways, Pockmarked Wall: Near Kamloops, BC, Canada (2012) - Fine art photograph of an archway and a slack door, set behind a peeling, pitted, bizarrely painted wall

Feeling the wind blow freely through the inside of a building is an unsettling sensation for me: in the tropics, it makes me feel very connected and alive; in more Northern climates, where we live sealed away from the elements, it makes me quiet and uneasy – as though breaking out the windows has made a snagging place for spirits.

Sometimes, the wandering ghosts infect the living: this old house had been torn apart by generations of night-wanderers, children and grandchilderen of the farm workers and hospital staff who called the old town home. Their bones and the bones of the doomed patients are buried in the fields and the woods.

I enjoy the aspect of this photograph. I feel trenched in the unorganized room, looking out towards the light instead of to the inside. The door is an entrance, not an exit. I'm an inhabitant now, unsettled, unwell, watching and waiting for more to explore these breezy hallways.

— Doorways, Pockmarked Wall: Near Kamloops, BC, Canada (2012)

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