Where the Trees Stood in Water

Authors

  • Bam bitchell
  • Alexis Mitchell University of Toronto
  • Sharlene Bamboat South Asian Visual Arts Centre

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/37295

Keywords:

Bambitchell, visual art, blueprints, geography, colonialism

Abstract

Where the Trees Stood in Water is a series of Cyanotype prints tracing the historic and contemporary transformations of Toronto’s Entertainment District. Each print is accompanied by an archival document which forms a narrative connecting geography to stories of colonization, industrialization and the transient bodies of those affected by the remaking of Toronto’s landscape.

 

Juxtaposing text and image, Where the Trees… pushes against the archival documentation of Toronto’s past and challenges the stories told about colonialism, labour and migration.

 

With playful reproductions, Bambitchell invites hidden, obscured, lost, and silenced narratives of colonial history to surface and tell new stories about the geography of Toronto’s core.

Author Biographies

Alexis Mitchell, University of Toronto

Geography, PhD candidate

Sharlene Bamboat, South Asian Visual Arts Centre

Artistic Director

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Published

2015-10-14

How to Cite

bitchell, B., Mitchell, A., & Bamboat, S. (2015). Where the Trees Stood in Water. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 19, 62–66. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/37295

Issue

Vol. 19 (2015): From Queer/Nature to Queer Ecologies: Celebrating 20 Years of Scholarship and Creativity

Section

Creative

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