Stillwater

During the pandemic, I, along with many others, became a sub-urban flâneur.  My daily explorations took me to the outskirts of the city, to the near edges of the greenbelt.  Structured somewhere between the ordered parks of the city and the dark, unfathomable boreal forest, the history of this land can be read. At the western edge of Ottawa, squeezed between the new DND campus, the 417, a chip manufacturer and a new LRT station, a debilitated wetland is being brought back to life. This is a next generation landscape – inherently man-made yet wild and generative, supporting both the local ecology and the health of the water flowing across the city. Reterritorialization in progress.