Mosaic
Mosaic is a multi-channel 20 minute video and audio loop that consists of stacked, fast-paced monitors. The footage is composed of fragments of interviews with various people chosen to represent diverse perspectives on the salmon and fishing industry. It presents individual stories from Lleanna Clark, a reflexologist who worked as a cannery line worker in high school; Jim Hart, a Haida Gwaii carver; Neil Jensen, a sports fisherman who worked on commercial fishing boats as a youth and grew up in Steveston; and Gerald Worobetz, a chef, fishing guide, and home economics teacher at a local high school. It also includes Jeff Mikus, a commercial fisherman and restaurant owner; Kathryn Ricketts, an interpretative dancer and educator; Dr. Anthony (Tony) Farrell, a professor of Biology at UBC; Ben and Elli Answerth, young tourists from Australia; and Una McPherson, Head Interpreter at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, who lived in cannery housing.
Mosaic reflects the non-linear and artistic approach taken towards researching salmon as the ecological and economic catalyst of this region. Specific video footage of a hand massaging a woman’s feet and calves, juxtaposed with a chef massaging salmon, reiterate the fleshy connection between the eater and the eaten. Through timed appearances and fades, the videos suggest at once a complex, random system; as well as the underlying structures that somehow link seemingly disparate elements of the food chain. It also illustrates the contemporary situation of Steveston, a shift from factory production to tertiary industry; this is influenced by recent immigration and the resulting urban development of the region.
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