Farm Landings
Lisa Murzin’s photographs, Grey Bruce County Farms (2015 – 16), depict family farms with vast tracts of furrowed fields circumscribed by aging infrastructures and woodlots. Her images serve to gently remind viewers that farming is one of the most ancient forms of terraforming—a method of deliberately modifying surface topography or ecology to allow for greater agrarian benefit. Until recently, the agrarian process allowed for a modicum of stewardship of the environment. Murzin’s images reveal the increasingly vulnerable conditions of farmers as industrial agriculture replaces the traditional farm.
‘Farm Landings’ was exhibited in the group show Scotiabank Contact Photography Show ‘Some Landings/Certain Debaquements’ 2016 at the John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto.
