Re: The Uniter’s annual Urban Issue

“No Parking” and “Parking” are digital prints of the City of Winnipeg’s downtown core. As an artist, I am intrigued by the all too familiar sentence “there is not enough parking in downtown Winnipeg.” With this in mind, I wanted to see what the actual percentage of space that downtown surface parking lots take up in this city. With the help of Google Earth I created the following two digital images; “Parking” (all surface parking lots) and “No Parking” (the absence of surface parking lots). I have been exploring the parking lots of Winnipeg through several different media including digital printing, etching and textiles. This work is available at Martha Street Studio.

“Parking”
Digital print on rag paper
44” x 66”
Kristin Nelson
2009

“No Parking”
Digital print on rag paper
44” x 66”
Kristin Nelson
2009

– Kristin Nelson

Published in Volume 63, Number 28 of The Uniter (June 18, 2009)