Wattles 'n Daub
Abandoned homesteads of the Canadian prairies.
In the mid 19th century, on the edge of frontier in Fort Ellice, Manitoba—a few miles from the wild, expansive lands of western Canada still owned by the Hudson's Bay Company—new family homes began to surface on nearly every quarter-mile section of land. For the first time in history, average Europeans had an opportunity for what was once only accessible to the wealthy: land ownership. Today, in the broken down barns and crumbling porches, in the twisting doorways of empty farmhouses that were once someone's dream, the cruelty of time: of human use and neglect, of forgotten lives, becomes undeniable. Life's impermanence, in such places, is no longer imaginable but real. And the poignancy of these places that man has inhabited and left behind reveals that change, not time, is the quiet bearer of compromise.
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