Flow

Digital video with sound (trailer 25 sec.)
3 min. 52 sec.

This video is produced using footage recorded in the region of Terrace, Kitimat, and Douglas Channel in northwest British Columbia, and underwater recording of salmon returning to the Adams River to spawn during the Fall. The video combines the movement and underwater environment of salmon, the transparent and reflective qualities of water and the dynamic flow of rivers. 

The video also incorporates black and white film and still photographs of cannery workers on the salmon canning line in the Gulf of Georgia Cannery when it was fully operational.

Flow is one of the artworks presented in the year-long exhibition Trading Routes: Rivers, Fish, Oil at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Museum National Historic Site. It is a component of the research and creation project Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Pipelines led by artist/researcher Ruth Beer and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.