Statement:

During my artist residency with ArtStarts in 2022, I worked on a photography project about the ships filling the ocean horizons around my neighborhood. Examining the visibility of the climate crisis, this project, Marine Traffic of Burrard Inlet (2022), documents the vessel-filled waters surrounding Vancouver. I photographed and tracked these often overlooked and forgotten components of the resource extraction and transportation sector. Combining telephoto-photography with marine traffic mapping imagery, the photo series expresses the limitations of our vision and attempts to reveal what is often purposefully ignored or hidden in regards to the climate crisis. Intertwining the viewpoints connects a ground-level perspective to the massive scale and interconnectedness of these vessels to climate crisis-causing industries.

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