Lake Shore Drive

The shoreline of Lake Ontario creates a liminal space between land and lake. Although we call the shore a line, the space it occupies is quite thick, with land reaching out into the water and water breaking into the land. The pairs of photographs in Lake Shore Drive take positions on this line between Niagara-on-the-Lake and Toronto, some times slightly further in and some times further out. One photograph looks out to the water; one photograph looks to the land, so that each diptych represents two aspects of a particular location. Using this simple method, the project makes visible what is outside the frame of one photograph, and it captures what is visible in the ‘other direction’, while no primacy is given to either one part of the pair.