The images in Sand Sigh were collected during repeated visits to the shoreline of Lake Ontario, along the southern edge of the Toronto Islands—a dynamic landscape that changes easily with the weather, revealing (and obscuring) natural patterns and material relics. Julie Pasila uses a combination of conventional and experimental analogue processes to visually comb the beach to explore ideas of ephemerality, ecology and the intersection of the natural and material world.
Julie Pasila (she/her) is a photo-based artist from Tkaronto/Toronto. She works with tactile, analogue processes to explore the landscape and its relationship to natural rhythms, timekeeping and place. Paila has exhibited in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe and received support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
