UWSpace will be migrating to a new version of its software from July 29th to August 1st. UWSpace will be offline for all UW community members during this time.
A Present Absence
Abstract
For the last ten years I have travelled with my camera out on the roads of the Canadian prairies, usually for a few days at a time, up and down stretches of highways, grids, and back roads, stopping to investigate whatever I could find. My interest in the landscape grew from forgotten spaces that lay dormant in the land. There is something exciting about being in unfamiliar areas and stepping into once-inhabited locations. The absence of people, and the marks they leave behind, lend to the allure of these places.
This thesis moves through a series of territories follow- ing the increase, and subsequent decline, of the population on the rural prairies. Silent rail networks, trails, domestic and utilitarian structures — as well natural landmarks — contain the presence of those who were once there. Photographic documentation and field research maps the spatial endeavours that shaped the prairie landscape as the place it is today.
Collections
Cite this version of the work
Stefan Berry
(2017).
A Present Absence. UWSpace.
http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12012
Other formats