Wilderness Tourist is a three-dimensional iridescent fabric sculpture built to fill a window. The fabric forms are punctuated with a grid of industrial sized grommets and the interior is fitted with a lighting system. The iridescent fabric’s surface changes with the shifting daylight. Depending on the quality of light and from which angle you look at the surface, the colour changes (iridescent fabric is typically made with a weave of two different colours). The exterior light also affects the interior lights of the sculpture through a light sensor: the darker it is outside, the more luminous the lights inside the sculpture, the brighter it is outside, the lower the interior light. As is common with window displays, audio is used but instead of the popular choice of music, the sound of a canoe being paddled is heard resonating through the surface of the glass window.
Exhibition History: 2005 site work located installed in the West Project Window, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West (Toronto, Canada); 2006 site work located in The Hudson’s Bay department store at Yonge St. and Richmond St. (Toronto) sponsored by Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in partnership with the City of Toronto (Canada).
