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These paintings were begun at the residency Women and Paint at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Instead of responding to the natural environment which tends to fill everyone's vision, I chose to photograph the details of the interior of Banff Centre for the Arts - a series of modernist, institutional buildings. Unlike my other photographic experiences I was free to dwell on the overly familiar, to ponder the uncannyness of the everyday, to feel horror in the sterility of the white and chrome washrooms, to see the world through my view finder, to creep and edge myself through the florescent light and shadow. The extreme horizontal format and the title of these paintings reference and subvert the traditional panoramic landscape shot so popular in the history of Banff. In these paintings, the abstract coloured shapes which appear on the monochrome grey surface disrupt, many suggest the imagined sound of the silent scream in Munch's classic painting.
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