 shelter 2323 Golden Hour
digital chromogenic print, approx 10.5" x 13.5” $95 This was a glorious late-spring day with the cottonwood fluff flying around. Vancouver has a long history of people building houseboats and living on them, untaxed and paying only moorage fees. Recently that spirit has moved inland; we have a significant population of people living out of campers, vans, and repurposed school buses. Nobody pays much attention to land adjoining the railways, so that's a popular spot to park. There's plenty of speculation about what caused Vancouver's impossible housing prices. It's become clear that through the port comes a river of fentanyl and other chems, and the laundered money from their sale is parked in high-end real estate, driving up the prices for the most expensive properties. This trickles on down to ordinary people facing million-dollar prices for the most ordinary of houses. Houseboats and buses look damn good in comparison. There's been a slight reduction in the rate of increase of housing prices and already the developers are lamenting the end of the Golden Age of Vancouver Real Estate. Learn more about the artist and this show here. Comments are closed.
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