A camera to consider drift as a force in photography and in forests.

I became aware of the continuous slow movement of drift while teaching students about the political ecology of colonial forestry practices on Vancouver Island. Through the process of erasure, dispossession and construction that industrial forestry relies upon, forests are created as trees, logs and timber, harvested, moved into water, and transported to sort yards for processing. Within the certainty of colonial and capitalist extraction, a number of logs escape — they become fugitives — and are carried on currents, storm surges and high tides.

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