Midnight on the Water was produced at the
Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in
Dawson City, Yukon 2007 as an Artist in Residence..
This installation of 40 paintings of the
Yukon River (oil on wood, 16" x 16") represent an
investigation into interference patterns in the unique conditions of the
Northern summer night.
Constructive interference is caused by light, wind, tides, currents, eddies,
undertow and silt
as well as artificial events. The river goes up and down as ice melts
and the speed varies.
At Dawson City, the faster, more turbulent, Klondike River empties into
the Yukon and runs
alongside, blue and brown, before mixing downriver. The water is constantly
changing,
its unpredictable patterns obeying random laws and in the case of the
Yukon River,
moving relentlessly in one direction, oddly, towards the north.