Vanishing Point

This series of work are collaborative pieces with Artists Shauna Oddleifson, Joanne Gervais & Alison Beaumont.

Vanishing Point began with a an Augmented Reality piece as part of the Ebb & Flow exhibition at Kelowna Art Gallery in 2024. The piece is a collage of various elements including photographs, illustrations, video, felting and knitted items, this is then animated and a sound track is added to the experience through the Artvive App.

Vanishing Point, is an augmented reality piece, and animation and light projections collaboration created for Ebb and Flow, an exhibition at the Kelowna Art gallery, and for Light Up Kelowna, an outdoor exhibition that has our animation projected on the side of the Kelowna Community Theatre, and stencils of some of the imagery from the animation to create light projections along the Artwalk in downtown Kelowna.

This work references the effect we have on our environment, and how the way we interact with nature can have consequences. The elements that make up the narrative pieces are hand drawn images, digital drawing, along with photographs that are collaged, staged and brought to life through animation and sound. The new project idea would be short vignettes taking those ideas further by bringing in more imagery of bright and colourful changing natural landscapes and bodies of water, alongside cityscapes that show how what we build—and how we take over land—impacts the natural world around us.

Listen to a sample composition of The Feels each interaction brings the potential for a differing series and overlapping of sounds.

With increasing temperatures brought about by climate change and fires in our local area, our natural environment is under threat. This work references the effect we have on our environment and how the way we interact with nature can have consequences.

This is a narrative work, a collaged landscape of the Okanagan depicting water, trees, and animals that come alive and shows the landscape changing over time due to possible drought, fires and other consequences of the changing climate, showing the landscape degrading and burning.

Art Walk is an ARTSCO project that uses GOBO lights and sound to activate an urban walkway between the Rotary Centre for the Arts and the Kelowna downtown library. For this Joanne & Shauna created silhouettes that represented images from our video and augmented reality works in Vanishing Point. Alison created 5 unique sound tracks to pair with each image projected on the walkway. Images and sound below.