“Pinhole Park” was created using a 35mm film tin modified into an outward-looking 59-pinhole camera that registers images on a single film loop mounted in the tin. Each loop is exposed in one moment with 59 pinhole “lenses” to create as many distinct images that, when presented in series, create a panning of the landscape in various directions. The work was exposed on outdated black-and-white 35mm print stock acquired from Archives Canada discards, and processed by hand in Caffenol chemistry, a less environmentally impactful developer made with coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda. The film and photographs document a city park (Burrard View Park in Vancouver—unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam, sḵwx̱wú7mesh Squamish, and səlilwətaɬ Tsleil-Waututh nations)—using light, motion, abstraction and film chemistry to render a near-empty space re-activated during the pandemic. Image description: Three frames of sepia-toned black-and-white film depicting a landscape with two conical evergreen trees in a field of flowers.
