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all images copyright Fiona Bowie 2009
"The landscapes that I chose as subjects are for the most part, ones in a state of
transition from one thing to another- some razed, some fallow, others flattened and levelled, awaiting new builds. As a collection, they are for me, sites of will, of potential and systems. They are sites of colonization of the unceded, traditional, ancestral, and current homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, including territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations upon which 1 Kingway is situated and where Flow is, with gratitude and respect, installed.
"Through these backgrounds, I hope to visually suggest both what is currently present within the environs of 1 Kingsway and what has disappeared; those who have been historically represented and those who have not; the ephemeral and the concrete; histories told and histories lost." (Bowie, 2006)
These states of transition also have a very different resonance today, given the climate crisis, than they had for the generations of last century: the stakes have become much higher." Fiona Bowie
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