Multiple // Parallel
Research trip 2014
In 2014 Bronwen Sleigh and I went to Quebec City to install our show 'Multiple//Parallel' at Engramme. We then went on a research trip through Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Thanks to The Bet Low Trust, Engramme and Glasgow Print Studio for their support.
Multiple//Parallel, Bronwen Sleigh and Rachel Duckhouse, Engramme 2014
Overflow, series of screen prints on tracing paper
Getting on the road. Bronwen making friends with the truckers.
Planning the route; keen to get to Manicouagan Reservoir, formed by a 214 million year old impact crater and dammed by the Manic 5 hydroelectric dam.
Driving east towards Tadoussac along the widening estuary of the St Lawrence River. Tidal flows, salt water meeting fresh water, upwelling of warm water, an underwater shelf of rock, fish and whale migration patterns.
The Saguenay River, to where the beluga whales come less frequently now.
Detail of Saguenay ii; pen and ink drawing, based on flows of water at the meeting point of the Saguenay and St Lawrence rivers.
Sagnuenay iv, Pen and ink drawing
Then north, to the Manic Cinq hydroelectric dam
The road to the crater.
At Le Cratère de Manicouagan: Asteroid crater.
Planning where to go next in Le Refuge Du Prospecteur on the edge of the crater.
Labrador City to Goose Bay.
The Mist.
Onwards through cloud; Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland.
Hydrology and geology in Gros Morne National Park - from below
Hydrology and geology in Gros Morne National Park - from above
Black Wood, Lino cut. White Wood, pen and ink drawing. Objects picked up along the way.
Earth’s mantle.
Tablelands
Final stop; Montreal Biosphere. Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome for Expo ‘67. Inside the dome.
Drawing asteroids on litho stones at Edinburgh Printmakers; imagining the Manicouagan asteroid.