Looking South Heading West: Project for Bosa Developments / The C.A.G., 2002

Installation (oil barrels, parking tickets) Photographs

Looking South Heading West, Project for Bosa Developments / The C.A.G is an installation and series of photographs.
Installed days before the second led U.S. led invasion on Iraq, this work is a public intervention which uses 300 oil barrels to occupy a downtown Vancouver parking garage over a twenty-four hour period. Each oil barrel was placed in its own parking stall and included a validated parking ticket clearly displayed on top of the drum. The work draws attention to oil consumption on a personal, local and social level while recognizing its paramount status as a global commodity.

As a photographic series, the work shows the parking garage and oil barrels as seen from the veranda of a penthouse suite in a newly constructed condominium tower located across the street from the parking garage. While the photographs provide documentation of the installation, they also allude to the strategic relationship between private urban development and public cultural consumption.