Temporary Public Artwork: Hamsterley Farm Water Tower for Capture Photography Festival Where: Marine Drive Station Vancouver, BC Dates: Spring 2016 Curators: curated by Abbey Hopkins, Jorma Kujala and Lauren Lavery For Hamsterley Farm Water Tower, Lucien Durey turned a Hamsterley Farm strawberry jam tin, which he found in Saskatoon, into a crude pinhole camera, using a sewing needle to poke a small hole into the face of the tin. With the homemade camera and 4” x 5” film, the artist travelled to Saanich, British Columbia, to document the jam tin’s referenced site—the farm’s water tower is now preserved as a recognized heritage structure—in an attempt to reveal something of the object to itself. Seemingly “personal” to the camera, can these photographs somehow convey the relational energies that exist between the antique tin and its documented site of origin?
Images: Pinhole camera made from Hamsterley Farm strawberry jam tin Installation views of Hamsterley Farm Water Tower Documentation by Blaine Campbell
