For many people, large parts of where they live have become invisible – expanses to be negotiated between destinations, but not looked at. As a photographer and artist, my work is largely concentrated on this idea. My work looks at the transitional nature of our built environment with a focus on the nominal subjects in our environment – the common places that we move through, but tend not to notice, on our way to somewhere else.
Having grown up in a small town in Northern Ontario, these images recall memories of my youth, when the ideology of the landscape and built environment was not always based on something new, well-designed, or planned. These images represent an escape, of sorts, from where I am today, and a reconnection with a landscape and environment that I left behind both in matter and mind.
My works attempt to uncover the ways in which our relationships to our environments define who we are both individually, and as a society.
Jason Brown
Souvenir Shop, Cannes-de-Roches, QC, 2011
Pigment Ink on Paper
16 x 21 inches
framed $500
Jason Brown
Canada Rocks, Middleton, PEI, 2011
Pigment Ink on Paper
16 x 21 inches
framed $500
Jason Brown
Four Square and Dutch Colonial Homes, Little Anse, NS, 2011
Pigment Ink on Paper
16 x 21 inches
framed $500