“The Fading Of Incandescent Light” aims to look at the contemporary landscape of Cornwall, Ontario, through a historical lens in collaboration with the Cornwall Community Museum for a January 2025 exhibition.
Opting to search for echoes in the landscape of what was, what remains, and how the land/infrastructure is being used today amid a nationwide housing crisis, “The Fading Of Incandescent Light” does not take a traditional rephotography approach of a “then vs now” narrative, but hopes to provoke questions in the viewer of their place amongst their city’s rich past and what are we doing today to preserve it while developing new housing projects.
By referencing archival photographs from the museum's holdings, conversations with staff, and my intimate knowledge of my hometown, the work is being carried out incrementally throughout 2024.
Cornwall Canal (looking west)
Abandoned Power Station
Lock 15 & Dry Docks (looking west)
Former Cornwall Curling Club
Bob Turner Memorial Centre
Former Sears
Courtaulds Canada Limited
Si Miller Community Arena
Dundas Mill
Former Seaway International Bridge
Lock 19 (Cornwall Canal)
Roosevelt International Bridge (view from below)
Canada Mill
Former Site Of The Peanut Line Train Station
Queen Elizabeth II Waves To Crowd From A Passing Train
Peanut Line Trainyard
Stormont Mill
Augustus Street Swing Bridge
Horowitz Park (from inside the former swimming pool)
