Alan Michelson

3 HD videos, gilded frames
Gloom of the Approaching Night: Fort York, Toronto, 31 minutes
Dying Day Drawing to Its End: Stelco, Hamilton Bay, 31 minutes
Glorious Light of the Setting Sun: Wind Farm, Port Burwell, 31 minutes

An installation of three, real-time video sunset “paintings” shot with a stationary camera at three sites in Ontario, presented on framed monitors on walls designed to evoke a romantic landscape museum installation. Each site represents a different environmental era—past, present, and future—in the colonization and development of the area, and the titles of the work were extracted from the writings of the photographer Edward S. Curtis.