FATA MORGANA
Print: 270 cm x 150 cm, 2024
Fata Morgana emerged from an artistic residency in Banff National Park. The term refers to mirages visible in the sky—images that reflect a landscape onto a distant puddle on the horizon. The work explores the construction and representation of landscape, with a mountain peak as its central element, framed by pine trees and the sky above the water’s surface. The photograph captures the reflection of a puddle on the ground, projecting what lies above onto the horizon, creating a vertical, contemplative composition.
The piece evokes the meeting of heaven and earth, high and low, investigating the tension between what is deliberately constructed and what is spontaneously reflected. Like a mirage on a puddled road or a fata Morgana in the sky, it generates an intriguing fusion of reality and illusion.
1.Photo:Jacques Bellavance.
2. Digital drawing on watercolor paper, 2024