Progress: August 30, 2009

Uploaded some new tongues into my YouTube channel and made playlists of each placename: Lapalme, Legault and Angerbauer. Viewing them, it sometimes took a while to situate each one from memory, as many share similar landmarks — a road, forest, bush, or dwelling in the distance. Also, the trips spanned from 2002 - 2009 with a big gap in between when I was in graduate school. However, just one detail (the foggy outline of Mont Saint-Hilaire, the weather) could stir a recollection.

My memory of each place, which is generally fleeting, imprecise and tends to involve all of the senses, is quite different from these documentations — silent, halting, "fake movies". The archiving process seems to add a preciousness to these landscapes in that they become distant, otherworldly. This off feeling could also be because of revealing details: the way the edges are sometimes blurred or do not align properly so that there is a ghost image. The outlines of each photo are evident and even accentuated at times. I didn't want to hide the fact that they were composite photos. A way of revealing the work process, the patching of fragments together.