Donald Lawrence
Donald Lawrence: Kayaks and Caissons
Keith Wallace
Lawrence's two- and three-dimensional works are working pieces used in the production of pinhole photographs. His illustrated journals document the works' progression, traversing the blurred line between artifact and art, and fulfilling the artist's interest in the intersection between image and text. In addition to having their individual material forms and explorations, these current projects indulge the artist's interest in sea kayaking. A booklet with an essay, twelve inscribed postcard-sized photographs and an overview of the exhibition are enclosed within a cardboard box
Kamloops Art Gallery (2003) 31 pp & 12 cards in cardbord box 6x5 in 1895497558 $18.00
Donald Lawrence: The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project
Susan Gibson Garvey, Katy McCormick et al
By rejecting sophisticated technologies and placing himself in the most primitive conditions for the capture and development of photographic images, Lawrence creates an incredible adventure and recreates a time when such experiments were the stuff of history and myth. With his elaborately constructed underwater pinhole cameras strapped onto his kayak, Lawrence documents his solo expeditions off the coast of Maine and Scotland and along Alaska's Kodiak River. The luminous pictures produced in his floating dark room are his discoveries but the entire process, with its deliberate references to 19th century geographic, scientific and literary explorations, is integral to his work. Muybridge, Marey and Jules Verne haunt Lawrence's discomfort within a society geared toward commodity fetishism yet each is obsessed with technological innovation and ascribes to the romantic ideal of nature as a mystical and sublime force. With an essay (in both English and French) and a lengthy interview. Donald Lawrence lives in Kamloops British Columbia.
Dalhousie Art Gallery (2002) 45 pp 31 ill. (8 col.) 9x7 in. softcover 0968450989 $15.00
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