River evokes the beauty and the importance of water in Canada’s history, rooted both in the vast area of our land that it covers and in the complex network of lakes and rivers that it forms. Aside from offering vital routes for exploration, communication and the transportation of goods, Canada’s waterways provide the inestimable wealth of hydroelectric power.

Operating in a liminal zone between representation and abstraction, the image, featuring a shimmering and pictorially rich surface of water, is inscribed with undulating silver-coloured forms that ripple across the main image. This graphic element serves to enhance the dynamic and sensual materiality of the work. It will gleam and shimmer depending on its viewed distance, like a natural landscape.

River seen from a distance, will draw the gaze of the passenger like a scintillating vista floating between mirage and reality, while from close-up the photographic surface will project the all- over quality of an Abstract Expressionist painting and will offer a poetic intensity consonant with the site it occupies.