About

These creations have gone through a long metamorphosis. While studying photography at the Banff Centre in 1977, I was involved in a climbing accident which resulted in the death of a fellow student and nearly my own. This event strongly informed my life. It also influenced the direction of my artistic focus. Years later I discovered Duncan Lake, a somewhat remote and man-made lake in the Kootenays of British Columbia, that was a boneyard of weathered wood. I began retreating there often, collecting these remnants and working with them. Illuminating them became another step in the transformative process, bringing light to death, and to life.

Read Cameron Mathieson’s Curriculum Vitae