As Bowker Creek traverses several neighbourhoods in Victoria, British Columbia, its identity is formed from a diverse assortment of contrasting experiences. While one stretch of the creek has become a receptacle for waste, the subsequent stretch is contextually reframed as a vital park with habitat for birds and wildlife, only to change identity once more, one block further.

The creek itself does not fundamentally alter in its purpose, even when over 50% of it passes beneath neighbourhoods in extensive underground storm drain pipes. Instead, it simply becomes a manifestation of localized public perceptions, and carries the resulting imprints of its uses (and abuses) to the channel and banks along the remainder of its urban trajectory.

A small selection from this larger series: