This body of work examines Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit expansion through the changing landscapes of construction. The paintings focus on stations, bridges, scaffolding, construction paths, cranes, sound barriers, tunnels, and other temporary structures encountered along the developing LRT corridor.
Working from direct observation and photographic records of these sites, I am interested in the visual and spatial experience of a city undergoing large-scale transformation. Construction interrupts familiar routes and landscapes, creating temporary spaces that are at once functional, disruptive, and visually distinctive.
Through painting, these transitional environments become more than records of construction. The process of observing and painting them draws attention to the ways infrastructure alters how we move through, perceive, and understand the city. The works capture a particular period in Ottawa’s development while considering the temporary structures and everyday encounters that often disappear once construction is complete.