A number of polaroid emulsion lifts by UK-raised, Vancouver-based artist and photographer Rachel Foster. Foster refers to herself as a white British settler and displays on the implications of occupancy, the delicate historical past between Canada and Britain, and the ecological and socioeconomic affect of colonial and capitalist attitudes on the Canadian panorama. Her work can be impressed by her job as a subject technician for non-profit and authorities chicken analysis. During the last 5 years Foster has labored as a chicken bander, accumulating knowledge of migrating songbirds for the biologists on the Iona Island Hen Observatory (IBBO) in Iona Seaside Regional Park, positioned simply north of the Vancouver Airport.
Throughout this time Foster has change into accustomed to the distinctive flows of the world, positioned on the unceded land of the Musqueam on the Fraser River estuary, xʷəyeyət (Iona Island). Regardless of the relentless improvement and air pollution, xʷəyeyət nonetheless nurtures freshwater wetlands, saltgrass meadows, and uncommon dune grass ecosystems. This sequence goals to painting the mosaic of xʷəyeyət – freshwater wetland, estuarine meadow, mudflat, forest, and invasive plant encroachment – to evoke the particular range and resilience of a delicate ecosystem cocooned inside industries that threaten to develop and additional alter its construction. See extra photos from “Darkish sands and salt grass” beneath.