Large-scale epoxied photoworks.
“I look for the beauty and the dark edges that push through the world around us—not to judge but simply to take it all in and then breathe it out.”
— ABE
Timberlands / Between Port Hardy and Fort Rupert, British Columbia
“We are deep in the woods where people rarely go. We are looking for the remains of the ancestors. It can be like a museum out there as we record ancestral marks, from a notch in a red cedar to a rock wall at the edge of tide.”
— ABE
The Power Plant / Indian Arm, British Columbia
“Serpentine pipes climb the cliffs from a Gothic power plant. The first people of the inlet tell of an ancient two-headed sea serpent that was defeated and then slunk up these same cliffs to die in Buntzen Lake.”
— ABE
Pulp Mill / Port Alice, British Columbia
McKenzie Barge / Dollarton, British Columbia
“As both an anthropologist and an artist, I have been granted the rare grace of being able to capture the memory of a place prior to its demise.”
— ABE