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.

While my work seeks to reveal the striking discontinuities in this area, the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority describes the science behind the changes here

Publicity for Stillwater
OSCAR, January 2025
Charlatan Magazine, January 2024
In Town and Out CBC Radio, October 7th, 2023
Apt613, October 2023
PhotoEd Magazine, October 2023

Stillwater Wetland, Modie and Carleton, Ottawa — *Stillwater wetland - Moodie and Stillwater* pigment print on Baryta paper, 72 x 24 inches

*New growth,* pigment print on Baryta paper, 32 x 40 inches

*Artificial aquatic structure*, pigment print on Baryta paper, 40 x 24 inches

Warning sign flating downstream, Stillwater wetland, Ottawa — *Warning sign*, pigment print on Baryta paper, 40 x 32 inches

Cut marshland, Stillwater wetland, Ottawa — *Cut marsh*, pigment print on Baryta paper, 40 x 32 inches

Landscape showing flooded frozen stream — *Ice Flood*, pigment print on Baryta paper, 72 x 24 inches

*Ornamental tree,* pigment print on Baryta paper, 40 x 32 inches

*Boundary trees,* pigment print on Baryta paper, 72 x 24 inches

*Open fence,* pigment print on Baryta paper, 40 x 32 inches

Storm water pnd, DND Campus, Stillwater, Ottawa — *Storm water pond*, pigment print on Baryta paper, 40 x 32 inches