20090826: Pictou &gt; Caribou Harbour

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17h46 - I start another short journey. This time I will explore the approach from Pictou NS. A quaint town very close to Caribou

Harbour. I take the roads closest to the waterfront, check out the view. I meet up with a few tourists. Most of the people I spoke to were passing through having taken the ferry from PEI and on to another destination. They were all that familiar with the area.

For details of my route please click here

As I approach the west end of town I stop to chat with a couple of women who have just left Sharon's Restaurant. I enquire about Caribou Harbour and they tell me there isn't much there but lobsters and the ferry. Beautiful spot though.

18h10 - On my exit from Pictou I see a man leaving a convenience store and ask him if the road I am currently on will take me to Caribou Harbour. He asks me if I am going to the ferry or the

camp ground. I explain where it is I am staying and he is very helpful in providing me with detailed directions. He tells me he lives near the area and that there isn't much to do. Most people are there for the ferry or for the campgrounds. There is also a really nice beach too.

I continue along and find the camp ground he mentions.

18h36 - I find Caribou Harbour.

Cycles

Cycles is an ongoing series of physical and virtual interventions that continues Cheryl Rondeau's exploration of the intersection between art and the everyday. Using the bike as the main mode of travel each intervention is fueled by determination and human-power.

Cycles projects:

the Route (Art Spin 08/2012)
43˚33'27"N 79˚35'24"W - Port Credit 2010
The Commute
Cycles 2009: Approaching Caribou Harbour
Cycles 2008: Toronto - Sudbury
Art Ride 2007

Physical endurance forms a central theme of the project. The use of the body in the artist’s displacement, its emphatic integration in the terrain, proposes a questioning of our perceptions of time and space in a world constantly shrinking within the virtual realm of cyberspace and ever-increasing air travel. Borders and geography are collapsed, disappearing from our collective memory. With this series of physical and virtual interventions Cheryl Rondeau pursues an investigation of the relationships between space and the body, gesture and the individual as well as the rupture between lived experience and its representation, so as to see and think differently.

Loaded with maps, camera, phone and notebook Rondeau logs her trouvailles and maps out her parcours. The Situationists were known to use walkie-talkies on their dérives. Similarly, she exploits today’s technology. Daily activities involve collecting ephemera, digital video and photography to map the geography of the experience and record the multiplicity of interstitial spaces between the departure and arrival points. Maintaining a record of the borders crossed and the landscapes traversed; while dealing with the elements and the fatigue that is at the core of long-distance cycling.
For more information: rondeau.cheryl@gmail.com

CYCLES

20090826: Pictou > Caribou Harbour

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