Heather Morton has posted a video she produced with Derek Shapton. It gives a further narrative glimpse into the childhood memories that are crystalized in his series Here.

“For the past year, I have been revisiting and photographing the locations of vivid early memories, ranging from the sidewalk in front of my childhood house to the park I used to play in to the former location of the pool where I first learned to swim. The images in Here are selections from this ongoing exploration.” — Derek Shapton on heathermorton.ca

Shapton’s series shares some of the visual language of location-based studies like Joel Sternfeld’s On This Site but adds a layer of personal remembrance and emotional response. I’m also reminded of projects like Gayla Trail’s Not Now, Not Ever which also takes childhood location as a jumping off point for creating new images with their own set of possible emotional reactions.

“Because I started this particular project while revisiting my childhood geography, time and place is very important to me. I try to create imagery that is difficult to date, capturing something that isn’t ‘right now’ but isn’t any specific time that has ever been or ever will be.” — Gayla Trail

I hope to see more of these videos from Heather Morton. I really like getting insight into an artist’s practice (which should be clear from from MakingRoom’s mandate) and even brief videos can shed a lot of light on how people work.

Derek Shapton has a show at The Gladstone Hotel here in Toronto (1214 Queen West) running until May 31st.

heathermorton.ca
derekshapton.com