Journeys Back

Journeys Back consisted of four individual vitrine style, Plexiglas-fronted cabinets. The cabinets were mounted next to one another in a row on a bare concrete wall in a darkened space. Each vitrine contained a different colour photograph of a hunting tower, borrowed from my photographic series Hunting Towers. Each cabinet was fitted with a bare light bulb.

On the bottom of each vitrine and under the photographs of the hunting towers, was a small mound of Swedish soil that I had brought over from Sweden. I placed grass seeds in the soil and watered the soil before sealing the vitrines. The lights were on a timer, providing 12 hours of light and heat, followed by 12 hours of darkness. Over the course of the three-week exhibition, the grass seeds sprouted and grew inside the vitrines on the wall.