Based on helicopter travels through Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, these drawings reflect the slow, often imperceptible environmental changes affecting the alpine landscape.
Created with graphite—a naturally occurring material mined from metamorphic rock—and drafting film, a durable surface that, like the terrain it depicts, undergoes constant transformation, the drawings emphasize material as much as subject. Drafting film is highly sensitive, recording the gestures and labour of the artist’s hand. The smudges and stamped marks left behind implicate human presence and its role in the environmental changes being observed.
In these works, mountains appear incomplete or in flux, evoking both their gradual erosion and the viewer’s limited perception of such a vast landscape. Through process and material, the drawings aim to capture a fleeting encounter with a landscape in constant transition.