McLennan Lake Summer 2022

The McLennan Lake area was burned in the Gray Fire (all provincial forest fires are given a name) of 2021. Canvases were placed in the burnt forest June 17, 2022 and collected on October 6, 2022. The raw canvas was stretched over a birch panel and burnt logs were placed on the canvas in a random arrangement or in some design. Half of the canvases had a shelter (plywood on legs) placed overtop the canvas to exclude the natural elements. Trailcams were set up to take a photo every hour of the installation for the approximately 5 month period that the canvases were laying on the burnt forest floor.  Images and short videos of the installation are shown below.

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​Usually around 5000 images were collected from the trailcams and then put into a movie format - videos were compressed into a longer and shorter version and are presented here. In the upper left corner you can see the date and time and upper right the air temperature.

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Long version

Short version