Monthly Archives: January 2026

Wind-Drawings at the DMZ

January 14, 2026 – 2:09 pm

In the summer of 2025, I made my third trip to the Korean DMZ. On the two previous trips I saw a number of Korean War battles sites and came to appreciate just how brutal the war was. I often cite the Battle of White Horse Hill (1952) in which the South Korean and US…

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Minefield Cyanotypes

January 13, 2026 – 8:21 pm

While at the Korean DMZ in the summer of 2025 I created some cyanotypes. I had never used the medium before, but because of the directness of the photographic process, it worked well with my conceptual approach. Indeed, each is a measure of time spent at the edge of a minefield. The unexposed paper was…

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Wind-drawing Machine

January 13, 2026 – 5:56 pm

The intention of the Wind-Drawings is to make a visual record Climate Change in Ottawa, and to do so in a tangible and affecting manner. In Ottawa in 2024 temperature records were broken on several days. On those days I deployed my wind-drawing machines at my downtown Ottawa residence and was able to direct the…

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