Artists and Agents
Art Gallery of , Stouffville, ON
I invited artists from the town of Stouffville to show me locations that most represented what Stouffville meant to them, especially in the context of the exponential growth that Stouffville has experienced in the last 10 years. I asked for a subjective version of their town, a perspective to which they paid attention regularly, and that possibly might be vulnerable to changing or disappearing altogether. The participants individually escorted me to their chosen location where they decided on the framing of the scene, and explained to me the logic of their choice.
From still mages of the views provided, I created a series of commemorative cushions with the image of each location printed on each. These cushions provided a way to fix each of these images as packaged identities, similar to the cushions of Niagara Falls that claim specific locations as crucial to an understanding of the place. Each participant received his/her own pillow.