When the Sun Crosses the Line
That Wind Will Rule the Weather
In the fall of 2009, I spent two months in Newfoundland creating When the Sun Crosses the Line That Wind Will Rule the Weather. The project consists of large-scale photographs responding to folklore, the environment, and my interactions with the elemental island, a series of portraits of Newfoundland women based on William Gosse’s painting of Shanawdithit (the last member of the Beothuk tribe), and a 16mm film juxtaposing the extinction of the Beothuk with the Cod Moratorium. When the Sun Crosses the Line That Wind Will Rule the Weather explores and reinterprets the island of Newfoundland, using it to speak of larger concerns such as the relationship between environment, culture and settlement.