Haliburton Forest Residency and Symposium, Ontario, Canada 2009

Reinhard Reitzenstein, artist and curator, organized a series of annual group residencies in the Haliburton Forest under the auspices of The Haliburton Forest Reserve. (A boreal forest in Northern Ontario). Warren Quigley, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Anne O’Callaghan, E.J. Lightman, Gayle Young and I were the selected artists for 2009.  As a group we camped in the forest not far from our individual exhibition sites which meant we could start early and work late.  In the early morning with coffee cup in hand I would head to my hut which I would eventually transform into a camera obscura. The hardest part was to seal all the cracks to keep out any extra light.