Rose Coloured Plot

On this land were and are the overlapping territories of the Katzie and Kwantlen peoples. On this land, stolen by British Columbia, lines were drawn to create Lot 15, a plot of land sold to a Japanese family who farmed transparent apple trees. Interrupted by British Columbia's plot of Japanese dispossession, lines were drawn to create 12258 224th Street. This same plot of land was then sold to and stewarded for over 50 years by my grandmother. Interrupted again by British Columbia's scheme of densification. The land is now occupied by a condo development that shadows a lonely apple  tree, trapped behind a private property sign.

My grandmother viewed this land through the rose colored lens of her camera and never spoke of its past. But this plot like all land is a palimpsest - many layers, written and erased, that if transparent could possibly connect us to the land and each other.

Rose Coloured Plot

2021

Film transparencies, monoprint on plexiglass, wood frames

(11" x 14" x 2") x 7