Time is mapped across the two prints instead of showing a single moment of the snapshot. For example the trees are barren and leafy in the same image because months have passed between the first and last photography sessions (left side of Homer Street). The new building on Homer street is also in the middle of construction with only the shell of the building completed. The people in the photograph are added in separately from the architecture like they are characters on a stage.




The view is one which cannot be seen by standing in the same place as the camera, because the camera was in so many locations creating the multiple-perspective panoramic. The camera was in 30 locations for each image. Only some of them share the same perspective. The scale is one of being nearby but the view is one of being distant. I intentionally left in areas where the images don't match up because I'm not trying to create an illusion of a seamless vista. Vancouver is in a tempest of rapid development and the different styles of city planning fragment Vancouver as in any other modern city. I wanted to reflect this in the artwork. In the print Homer Street, construction added and removed objects from the camera's view each time I came back. The usual guilty optimism of progress in Canada's west coast is indulgence in chaos.



The new Salvation Army building on Homer Street is called Vancouver Belkin House. The Salvation Army has services for those needing long term care, shelter and a community feeding program. The old Salvation Army building in Vancouver's downtown was located on Dunsmuir Street. It was originally an old luxury hotel from the 1930s. Today the old Salvation Army building has become a hostel for students and mostly young travellers. The new Salvation Army building is just one block away from the old building on Homer Street.