Terrapin Tower is a digital installation that addresses the legacies of architecture and waste in Niagara Falls, New York. The exhibition is comprised of three short films and a written work that combines poetics and images. Terrapin Tower attempts to see into the ways in which Niagara has been imagined as a monument, and how this monumental vision has washed over the material reality of the terrain as it became a site of widespread pollution. These works together explore the ways by which we come to know histories that have been made invisible, through reading, listening, family memory and legacies of illness.
This work was presented as the graduating exhibition for my MFA in Film Production at Concordia University.