CIEL VARIABLE 54 - Gardens/Landscapes
EDITORIAL - Garden-Landscapes
By Jacques Doyon
The photographs of gardens and landscapes presented here are not about looking at plants, flowers, and trees for themselves, in the sense of botanical documentation. Rather, they attempt to highlight what rules over the arrangement of or investment in such places and what is at play in our reading of these images of nature. A garden is a landscape, a landscape is a garden . . . both are shaped by the culture of those who create them, represent them, contemplate them.
POINT DE VUE - Hyperpaysages, À l’affût de territoires réticulaires et mentaux.
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Summary
Au moment où nous sommes entraînés dans une course de plus en plus accélérée des technologies de virtualisation, certains peuvent être tentés de croire que des voies d’expression comme la photographie ou le jardin sont dépassées,
PORTFOLIO - Scott McFarland, Gardens, Vancouver
Scott McFarland’s recent photographs depict private gardens located in an exclusive Vancouver neighbourhood. The photographs, which include portrait studies of garden owners and workers, unpopulated landscapes, and images of security systems, make the private gardens built and maintained for their owners’ pleasure
Garden Optics
The gardens depicted in Scott McFarland’s recent photographs lie in a narrow wedge of land on Vancouver’s West Side, bracketed on one side by the University of British Columbia’s classrooms and satellite colleges, and, on the other, by the urban forest of the University Endowment Lands,
PORTFOLIO - Michel Campeau, Arborescences
. . . a late-summer bounty of natural and unnatural growth, the cultivated and the uncontrollable. For while this garden has its real-world aspect and can be found on a map, it serves for Campeau as the foliage in a narrative tour of an interior landscape, described in muted speech and in surroundings of symbolic figuration .
Under a Campeau Blue Sky
“Midway this way of life we’re bound upon,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood...”1
PORTFOLIO - Robin Collyer, The McCain Family Commission
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
Avec subtilité, une série de dix photographies faites par Robin Collyer répond à une commande privée pour la mémoire d’un disparu. Ces vues montrent divers paysages du Nouveau Brunswick qui renvoient autant à des archétypes qu’à une réalité quotidienne plus ou moins commune à ceux qui vivent dans cette région.
Paysages
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Summary
Par Catherine Grout
“ I was commissioned by the McCain family to create a series of photos, as a remembrance of their brother Peter, who was killed in an accident “. “ It was quite scary to take on this project.
