Based upon helicopter travels through the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, these drawing reflects upon the slow and often imperceptible environmental changes impacting the alpine landscape.
These drawing uses graphite, a naturally occurring material mined from metamorphic rock and drafting film, a durable material that— like the landscape depicted— undergoes endless transformations in state. Drafting film is sensitive and documents the action and labour of the artist's hand. Stamped marks left by the artist's hands in the drawing process implicate the human involvement responsible for the environmental change. In these drawings, mountains are represented in a state of incompleteness, suggesting their slow and inevitable demise or the viewers limited perception.
Through both process and material, these drawings seek to record a momentary experience of an unfixed landscape.