Tyler Brett, Fantasy Sheds Of Sointula, 4 volume book series combining photography and AI generated imagery portraying vernacular architectural fantasies and realities situated within artificial and existent Sointulan/Kwakwaka’wakw landscapes.
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Tyler Brett, Fantasy Sheds Of Sointula: Boatsheds, 2023. AI prompted imagery.
Tyler Brett, Fantasy Sheds Of Sointula: Boatsheds, 2023. AI prompted imagery.
Tyler Brett, Fantasy Sheds Of Sointula: Edward Van Halen Frankensteins, 2023. AI prompted imagery.
Tyler Brett, Fantasy Sheds Of Sointula: Net Sheds, 2023. AI prompted imagery.
Sointula is a fishing village located in the Pacific Northwest of Canada on Malcolm Island between northern Vancouver Island and the BC mainland in the unceded Kwakwaka’wakw territories of the ʼNa̱mǥis, Mamalilikulla and Kwakiutl Nations. Its place name in Kwak'wala is Tłatłaskudis, which means "seaward opposite beaches". The remote village of Sointula was founded in 1901 by a small group of Finnish socialist utopian settlers led by the political philosopher and journalist Matti Kurikka, who gave it the name Sointula, meaning "place of the chord" or "place of harmony". After the formal utopian organization dissolved in 1905, and it's leader and many followers moved on, a few remaining Finnish families stayed to continue farming, logging, fishing and boat building, leading to the community and remaining sheds that exist today.
Tyler Brett, Fantasy Sheds Of Sointula, 2023.
Hardcover
4 Volumes
29 pp (including table of contents and 17 shed portraits)
6.5 x 6.5 inches
VOL 1 (first edition of 30) produced in collaboration with TRAPP Projects, Vancouver, 2025.
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