Travelling to the Bonavista Peninsula, I documented the landscape with a high-resolution camera mounted on the dashboard of my car. Using the fixed perspective of the windshield as a compositional frame, the images were the source material for each painting. It is important to me that my images depict how I think modern people move through the landscape. I think fish, boats, icebergs and idealized caricatures of Newfoundland traditions dominate the visual representations of this province. As a contemporary artist, I want to develop new visual narratives about the land I call home and how we move from point A to point B. I reflect on these new narratives in my work by exploring what I think is the true modern experience of a place as seen through the window of a car and the lens of a cell phone camera.

Driving through stretches that are barren from lack of industrialization, we note every turn, curve, pothole and telephone pole. Traversing the long expanses of road stretching between communities, each minor change grows in significance in a sea of repetitive visuals. Deceptively homogenous landscapes become intimately known by locals. With tourism becoming a driving force for the Bonavista Peninsula economy, communities have built numerous attractions to lure visitors. Passengers travelling to these locations pass the time by checking their mobile devices periodically. Arriving at these viewpoints, however, we often do not exit the car; we feel satisfied with a snapshot to post on social media to prove our presence.