sleep walk by Marlene MacCallum

In early June of 2020, to mark the end of my regular walks, I began to photograph at the edge of Lake Ontario, always from the same south-facing vantage point. Over the following months and years, I slowly amassed a visual record that reflects the ever-changing conjunction of sky, water, and land. My conception of this vast lake as a fixed entity was transformed into a realization of the mutability, vulnerability, and adaptability of this environment. The process of making “sleep walk” was a discovery of the phenomena of shifting states: natural, physical, social and psychological. This resulted in a seven-section work that uses a combination of accordion and nested folio sections. Section One: fluctuateThe unfolding natural pattern of seasonal flux.Two forms of time are present, the diachronic time of movement through the book and the synchronic time of each page. Section Two: sublimateEach section begins with a word that encapsulates a form of shift.Sublimation, the phenomenal occurr