Michel Huneault
in Gaspé

Climate change is difficult to apprehend.

Some of its most important impacts are barely visible, and slow. Their causes come face to face with out oldest ideas, our habits and our lifestyle, our reading of history, memories made and waiting to be made.

Try. Document, represent.

First, attempt to use a laser beam to mark where the water will go when the temperature increases by 2 to 4 degrees, to see.

Understand that this line is neither static nor definitive. It moves continually, according to the seasons and the tides, the wind, the shape of bays, the glaciation of the waters.

Does that line exist if we’re not looking at it?

With shared places and secrets, develop the modes of documentation and representation, capture more.

On these shores, three-dimensional portraits of people encountered, of loaned objects and havens. Enhance them with point clouds, like fragile fossils ahead of time.

Film each dusk as it fades away in the salt air; celebrate it as though it were the last and first time.

This research and creation project website was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, as well as to the collaboration of a number of organizations active in the region where I worked: the Vaste et Vague artist center, the Village en chanson de Petite-Vallée, the Centre communautaire de Douglas, the Est-Nord-Est artist center, the Musée de la Gaspésie, Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, the Centre culturel de Paspébiac, the Fonderie Darling / Quartier Éphémère, and the Pôle artistique et communautaire de la Gare de Matapédia. A very special thank-you to the citizens who took part in the process in the Lower St. Lawrence and in the Gaspé Peninsula, and supported it.