Ice Follies and the “One Eye Folly,” 2008

Created for the W.K.P. Kennedy Art Gallery’s Ice Follies, 2008, and exhibited in Frozen at Prince George's Two Rivers Art Gallery, 2011, the “One Eye Folly” is built around a small rowboat and sat on frozen Lake Nippising. The work is a hybrid form between a boat and a shed; the premise of Ice Follies being to create works inspired by the notion of an ice-fishing hut. A  small aperture, or opening, allows light into the structure, thereby casting an image inside of the view that is in front of the boat/shed and turning the boat into a camera obscura. During Victorian times camera obscuras in the form of small pavilions were typical at seaside resorts allowing viewers to take in a view of the surrounding beach and town. Please click on an image below to view a larger version.

Funding for this project was provided through a Research/Creation grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.