Dr. Michael Hoechsmann Reviews Unique Orillia Artwork by David Crighton

Dr. Michael Hoechsmann (Professor, Faculty of Education, Orillia) has written a review of David Crighton’s Orillia-based artwork, published in Orillia Matters. David Crighton’s artwork is currently featured at Hibernation Arts Gallery in Orillia, and his work can be viewed on his website.

Michael writes that “David Crighton’s artwork tells the story of cities, large and small. More a surveyor or architect than a cartographer, Crighton gets into the bones of a city, its buildings, businesses, venues, and homes. Brick by brick, he documents the structures in which life is lived and culture is made in southern and central Ontario...

"These images, and the buildings depicted, are for audiences to admire, and they improve with time as they move indelibly from chronicle to nostalgia. In the process, they become part of our collective memory, commemorations of moments already experienced, or aspirational and vicarious glimpses into the potentials of the urban landscape… This work evokes nostalgia. And yearning. It is wistful, yet desirous. It is playful and artistic. And it is breathtakingly straightforward, a reflection of time standing still, of the bones of cities revealed.”

Below: “French's Fry Shack. Orillia” by David Crighton.