By Design is comprised of digitally constructed fictitious buildings, based on memories of industrial buildings I had glimpsed through my car windshield while traveling on Highway 401. Using generic images of mass-produced siding, doors, and other architectural features, I digitally manufactured and then personalized these commonplace buildings through the placement of foreground objects and plantings. These images are not printed in editions, so that they, like the construction materials the buildings are made of, can be mass-produced.
Essay by curator Linda Jansma: From no place to nowhere
See Prefix Photo 25. Land and Sea, Spring/Summer 2012: http://www.prefix.ca/magazine/
725 Steeles Avenue
C-print from digital file, 2011
33″ x 81.9″ (83.8 cm x 207.9 cm)
8600 Regional Road 25
C-print from digital file, 2011
33″ x 62″ (83.82 cm x 157.48 cm)
8030 Industrial Drive
C-print from digital file, 2011
33″ x 81.9″ (83.8 cm x 207.9 cm)
800 Biscayne Crescent
C-print from digital file, 2011
33″ x 93.7″ (83.8 cm x 238 cm)
250 Pinebush Road
C-print from digital file, 2011
33″ x 81.9″ (83.8 cm x 207.9 cm)
99 Franklin Boulevard
C-print from digital file, 2011
33″ x 59.4″ (83.8 cm X 150.9 cm)
2070 Sheldon Drive
C-print from digital file, 2011
33″ x 58.1″ (83.8 cm x 147.5 cm)
505 Conestoga Parkway
C-print from digital file, 2011
33″ x 84.5″ (83.82 cm x 214.6 cm)
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON, Canada, 2012
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SUSAN DOBSON 