GO (2015)

Using the GO train, Toronto's inter-regional transit system, as the subject of investigation, the work locates the daily rituals of commuter culture as a transitory state of being. Using a camera equipped with a high-speed motor drive and specially formulated motion picture film, trains are captured as blurred outlines, streaks of light and abstract washes of colour, investing them with a cinematic quality. The photographs were taken at remote rail crossings at suburban locations in the early morning hours or at night; enveloped in darkness, the images of trains in motion are depicted as being suspended in both time and space. Visually reminiscent of the early twentieth-century Futurists, whose work and artistic philosophy glorified machinery and urban modernity, the images reveal the transience and dynamic energy of contemporary life.