Living in Toronto, one thing becomes readily apparent, it is a city cross-cut with many parks, ravines and rivers flowing from North to South. Toronto is drained by half a dozen watersheds which flow down to Lake Ontario. Much of the watercourses are visible some having been channelized or buried as storm sewers that follow the course of the ravines located all over the city. Some of these storm drains vary from very large and long systems snaking through neighborhoods, to shorter small ones. Although almost everyone lives close to ravines, channels and storm drains are secret places which sit outside of people’s general periphery, considered off-limits by most, a dark and strange place few have interest in. Much of my work on this project has sought to bring together the images I’ve taken underground, in ravines and my personal favorite, channels where rivers and creeks meet concrete where it is apparent our watersheds have been adapted with little thought to the aesthetic of surrounding neighborhoods.
