forest documents, 2025

Video Installation
2 channel video, 4k, 60 minute cycle 

Two video projections are mounted back to back on a free-standing projection wall (with a screen 16 ft wide x 9 ft high).

Viewers are able to browse in a reading room with documents and publications on the charcoal felt-covered trestle tables on a diagonal to a 2D projection screen; a viewing area with benches is located on the other side of the wall with a stereoscopic S3D projection screen (requiring active glasses). In collaboration with Technical Director Jorge Zavagno. Exhibition booklet

forest documents was on view August 9 – October 18, 2025 at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, CA, with plans for a tour, to follow. A Zoom panel discussion was held September 23. See it now.

Displayed on two tables, diagonal to the projection wall screening a large format 2D video projection of  the Walbran old-growth forest, a reading room invites the viewers to explore a number of publications and documents ‘in’ the space of a forest. One of the tables holds Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones’ chapbook, Chronicles of the Forest, From the Walbran to Fairy Creek | What the Forest Needs, Our Heart Needs, by Elastic Spaces Press, along with a number of oral histories and  documents from the Rainforest Flying Squad and the Ecoforestry Institute Society. On the other table, a reader will find a number of publications from the interdisciplinary researchers we worked with over a nine year period of time,  along with several curatorial essays on the development of the ‘forest! body of work, and a two volume book by the artist Leila Sujir’s aunt, Manorama Savur, whose field work on the deforestation in India inspired this ‘forest’ body of work.