forest documents, 2016 – 2025

2-channel large format Video Installation (occupies approximately 9 square meters).

60 minute cycle, spatialized audio. 

Two  video projections are mounted back to back on a free-standing wall (4.87 meters x 3.05 meters) with a 2D video projection that the viewers encounter first; a stereoscopic 3D (S3D) viewing area with benches is located on the other side of the wall on a 3D screen mounted to the wall (4.27m x 2.4m). 

A table and chairs with approximately 15 publication documents and a lectern with an artist book for the Reading Room are in a diagonal set-up, at each side of the entrance to the exhibition space, with the large format 2D video projection wall. Set-up: optical polarized S3D, with a spatialized speaker set-up embedded in the free-standing wall.2-channel large format Video Installation with reading room (occupies approximately 9 square meters).

This two channel video installation, forest documents, with a Reading Room in collaboration with librarian-artist John Latour, provides a number of publications and documents to give the forest spaces its voices, along with a forthcoming chapbook-memoir by Pacheedaht Elder William (Bill) Jones, Chronicles of the Forest: From the Walbran to Fairy Creek | What the Forest Needs, Our Heart Needs (2025).

Using large format cinematic technologies (8k, IMAX, and stereoscopic 3D [S3D]), this body of work, forest documents (2025), Aerial (2019), and Forest Breath (2018) provides the viewer with an experience of the old-growth forest as a space for research and contemplation.