Fertile Ground

Commission piece for mixed-media visual artist Miriam Berndt’s featured at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

fertile ground strives to tell the complex story of the False Creek Flats through images sourced from archives, databases, news outlets, community organizations, and original photographs. The resulting video collage combines approximately three-hundred individual frames to form a rhythmic movement, pointing toward a futurity of co-existence and hope. fertile ground illuminates the transformation of the False Creek Flats over time and inspires a sense of interconnectedness, hope, and cultural pluralism, making the claim that a complex and even oppressive past can cultivate the most fertile ground for the coming together of peoples.