Takkakaw Falls, Yoho National Park, BC, Canada (Takkakaw means ‘it is magnificent’ in the Cree language.) Tourists in the Canadian Rockies are surrounded by signs and pamphlets describing the landscape in terms of geology and physics: measurements, comparisons and scientific explanations as to how the land formed. My Takkakaw series intentionally draws attention away from contextualization of this kind. Rock is pulled down into blackness; there is no ‘reason’ or ‘cause’ visible in these images, no geology, only the water itself - its colossal power, its nuances and shapes, its spray and light, the endless expressivity of its journey down the cliff.
