Drained basin at the Smiths Falls Combined Lockstation, Rideau Canal, Ontario.
From The Straight Way Lost, a long-form photographic sequence exploring psychological landscape, disorientation, and transition along the Rideau Canal corridor in Eastern Ontario. The emptied lock basin reveals fractured ice, exposed surfaces, and residual channels of water, transforming the engineered infrastructure of the canal into an ambiguous psychological terrain marked by absence, suspension, and transition.
Scott Murphy – Photographer 