Arthur Erickson typically gets the credit for the remarkable provincial Law Courts building in downtown Vancouver, but it's his partnership with landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander that really makes this project work.
When the season is right, the whole structure seems wrapped in life. I take a photo of it whenever I pass by, and on this day in 2016 I just happened to be carrying the perfect camera to make this print.
I love the patina on the concrete skeletal structure, the punctuation of the flowers in full bloom, and the cascade of the ferns below. When I took the photo, I noticed none of that. I responded, as I usually do, to the geometric form. This photo has taught me, in the nearly ten years since, to make time to look for the things I sometimes overlook.
Details of this print:
uneditioned / open edition, signed in pencil au verso
Ilford Multigrade FB Classic Glossy fibre-based paper (MGFB1K)
25 cm / 10 in. square image area, with 1.25 cm / .5 in. white border
processed according to Ilford’s optimum permanence sequence
spotted for dust and blemishes where necessary with archival inks
flattened in a Seal dry-mount press
packaged in an acid-free clear bag, and shipped between rigid cardboard sheets
includes signed certificate
The photos show the actual print in its clear bag, made in June, 2025.
Arthur Erickson typically gets the credit for the remarkable provincial Law Courts building in downtown Vancouver, but it's his partnership with landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander that really makes this project work.
When the season is right, the whole structure seems wrapped in life. I take a photo of it whenever I pass by, and on this day in 2016 I just happened to be carrying the perfect camera to make this print.
I love the patina on the concrete skeletal structure, the punctuation of the flowers in full bloom, and the cascade of the ferns below. When I took the photo, I noticed none of that. I responded, as I usually do, to the geometric form. This photo has taught me, in the nearly ten years since, to make time to look for the things I sometimes overlook.
Details of this print:
uneditioned / open edition, signed in pencil au verso
Ilford Multigrade FB Classic Glossy fibre-based paper (MGFB1K)
25 cm / 10 in. square image area, with 1.25 cm / .5 in. white border
processed according to Ilford’s optimum permanence sequence
spotted for dust and blemishes where necessary with archival inks
flattened in a Seal dry-mount press
packaged in an acid-free clear bag, and shipped between rigid cardboard sheets
includes signed certificate
The photos show the actual print in its clear bag, made in June, 2025.
