Blue Cabin

    The Blue Cabin is the very last remaining structure from the intertidal mudflats in North Vancouver. From the 1920's onward, many different dwellings, provisional and more formalized, housed a wide variety of people. Some were exceptionally creative and culturally involved. Among these were Al Neil and Carole Itter who shared this cabin. Neil was a gifted avantgarde jazz pianist and artist and Carole, an installation and performance artist.

   We were engaged to restore, rebuild and repurpose the building for its future on a barge; the centrepiece as a floating artist's residency.Through the process, a sumptuous melange of meta-historical content was revealed. Multitudes of found objects, layers of applied colour and a rich outsider architectural design were captured in over four thousand photographs, recorded and archived.