Sylvia Grace Borda | Artist Website
  • Mise en Scene
    • Mise en Scene
  • Farm Work
  • Farm Tableaux - Google Street View
  • Aerial Fields
  • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2020-21
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2017-19
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2013-14
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2010-12
  • Interrogations of a Camera
  • This is not a camera
  • Impressions
  • Seeing Technologies
  • Northern Ireland
    • Coming to the Table
    • Orchards
  • Kissing Project
  • Past Projects
    • Public Art Commission: Number 4 Pump Station
    • Community Engagement: Seeing Across Boundaries
    • Public Art Commission: Cuneo Camera Obscura
  • Artist Bio
    • Artist Bio
    • Teaching Practice
    • Public Speaking
    • Request a lecture
    • Purchasing Art
  • Exhibition History
    • Exhibition History
    • Reviews
  • Contact
  • News
  • Camera Histories
  • Momento Mori
  • Stereoworks
    • Two if not Three
    • Aura
    • Viewpoints
    • This is not a camera
  • re-COLLECT-ing
  • EK Modernism
    • EK Modernism series
    • Project legacies
    • Canada series
  • A Holiday in Glenrothes
  • Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC
  • This one's for the farmer
  • Social engagement
  • Lumsden Biscuit
    • Social Enterprise
    • Edible photograph
  • What are you doing Richmond
  • Snow Cameras
  • Hunting Cameras
  • Architecture
    • Architecture
    • Preplanning design
    • House as Social Agent
    • Generous Architecture
  • Digital Art
  • Shifting Perspectives Book
  • Mise en Scene
    • Mise en Scene
  • Farm Work
  • Farm Tableaux - Google Street View
  • Aerial Fields
  • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2020-21
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2017-19
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2013-14
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2010-12
  • Interrogations of a Camera
  • This is not a camera
  • Impressions
  • Seeing Technologies
  • Northern Ireland
    • Coming to the Table
    • Orchards
  • Kissing Project
  • Past Projects
    • Public Art Commission: Number 4 Pump Station
    • Community Engagement: Seeing Across Boundaries
    • Public Art Commission: Cuneo Camera Obscura
  • Artist Bio
    • Artist Bio
    • Teaching Practice
    • Public Speaking
    • Request a lecture
    • Purchasing Art
  • Exhibition History
    • Exhibition History
    • Reviews
  • Contact
  • News
  • Camera Histories
  • Momento Mori
  • Stereoworks
    • Two if not Three
    • Aura
    • Viewpoints
    • This is not a camera
  • re-COLLECT-ing
  • EK Modernism
    • EK Modernism series
    • Project legacies
    • Canada series
  • A Holiday in Glenrothes
  • Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC
  • This one's for the farmer
  • Social engagement
  • Lumsden Biscuit
    • Social Enterprise
    • Edible photograph
  • What are you doing Richmond
  • Snow Cameras
  • Hunting Cameras
  • Architecture
    • Architecture
    • Preplanning design
    • House as Social Agent
    • Generous Architecture
  • Digital Art
  • Shifting Perspectives Book
What are you doing, Richmond?
Commission: Minoru Centre for Active Living (June 2017 - January 2019)
Media: Google Street View dimensional tableuax portraits and C-41 exhibition prints (36 in x 24 in)


Sylvia was commissioned as the inaugural artist in residence to assist in the launch of the new Minoru Centre for Active Living. As part of her brief she proposed to photograph a number of Richmond residents as they undertook their activities at the Centre. This included creating tableaux of seniors to younger athletes at play and at work during undertaking favourite activities across the different facilities at Minoru Centre. To learn more about this socially engaged project visit the City of Richmond's website at https://minorucentre.ca/public-art/
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This  series consists of eleven Google Street View enabled portraits and prints. Each of the project participants agreed to share their images online.

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Seniors at work at the wood shop
https://tinyurl.com/y6nrehwd
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Track and field - Hammer throw practice
https://tinyurl.com/yxzmw7g5
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Track and field: Kajaks youth runners
https://tinyurl.com/y5gnw9js

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Synchronized swim team 
https://tinyurl.com/yyqsflw9
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Mah jong players
https://tinyurl.com/y5wu5fdx

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Bridge players - team 1
https://tinyurl.com/y33ffh5a
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Bridge players - team 2
24"x36" C41 print 


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Seniors theatre group
https://tinyurl.com/yyur3xx7
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Kajak coaches and youth track team
https://tinyurl.com/y5qfoj65
Working in Richmond, BC

Sylvia acknowledges as an artist who has worked in the City of Richmond, she has photographed on the shared and unceded traditional territories of the First Peoples of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language group, and she pays respect to the Elders, past and present, and to future generations.

Interactive map resources such as Native Land (2015), Whose Land (2017) and Indigenous Peoples Atlas (2018) can help identify territories. As always maps are fluid and ever changing and can be used as educational tools to create dialogue around reconciliation.

Project legacies and reviews:

2020
October
​University Arts Association of Canada - Panel discussion of artist's Google Street View artwork developed in Nelson (2017) and Richmond, BC (2018)


N.B.
Sylvia's use of Google Street View technology started in 2013 when she started to collaborate with John M Lynch, a Google Trusted Photographer. She worked with John to complete Farm Tableaux (2013) and Mise en Scene (2014). Since the production of these artworks Sylvia is being recognized as a pioneer in the medium, and the first to create artistic content within the Google map engine. 
  • Mise en Scene
    • Mise en Scene
  • Farm Work
  • Farm Tableaux - Google Street View
  • Aerial Fields
  • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2020-21
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2017-19
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2013-14
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2010-12
  • Interrogations of a Camera
  • This is not a camera
  • Impressions
  • Seeing Technologies
  • Northern Ireland
    • Coming to the Table
    • Orchards
  • Kissing Project
  • Past Projects
    • Public Art Commission: Number 4 Pump Station
    • Community Engagement: Seeing Across Boundaries
    • Public Art Commission: Cuneo Camera Obscura
  • Artist Bio
    • Artist Bio
    • Teaching Practice
    • Public Speaking
    • Request a lecture
    • Purchasing Art
  • Exhibition History
    • Exhibition History
    • Reviews
  • Contact
  • News
  • Camera Histories
  • Momento Mori
  • Stereoworks
    • Two if not Three
    • Aura
    • Viewpoints
    • This is not a camera
  • re-COLLECT-ing
  • EK Modernism
    • EK Modernism series
    • Project legacies
    • Canada series
  • A Holiday in Glenrothes
  • Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC
  • This one's for the farmer
  • Social engagement
  • Lumsden Biscuit
    • Social Enterprise
    • Edible photograph
  • What are you doing Richmond
  • Snow Cameras
  • Hunting Cameras
  • Architecture
    • Architecture
    • Preplanning design
    • House as Social Agent
    • Generous Architecture
  • Digital Art
  • Shifting Perspectives Book