Tag Archives: conceptual art

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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Birds of the DMZ

January 22, 2024 – 5:26 pm

In late 2022 I learned that SAW CENTRE and the Korean Cultural Centre in Ottawa would be hosting an exhibition curated by the REAL DMZ PROJECT (RDP) of Seoul, South Korea. RDP is dedicated to an artistic examination of visible and invisible boundaries of the Korean Border Zone. Aware that the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)…

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All the Birds I Saw Last Year

January 29, 2019 – 5:38 pm

All the Birds I Saw Last Year is my attempt to portend something of our future through the dedicated observance of local bird populations. By charting every bird I see – no matter how incidental – some rhythms or patterns might emerge that are telling of the health of our shared environment. As we wade…

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