Featuring a moment in time during a train journey across the Canadian landscape, this work draws on interests in various notions of labour – empty/useless, obsolete, manual, migrant, ritualized, and repetitive. Thinking about the legacy of Chinese-Canadian labourers with the building of the railway across the country, I was interested in the relationship to a national history of forgetting and amnesia as a cultural condition.

Installation view at Here today, gone today, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2010