David LaRiviere
@dlariviere
Artist & Anti-Tourist, following lines drawn by chance encounters, not brochures.
It's a colossus made of Bitumount infrastructure come to life, wandering through the open pit mines of northern Alberta!
From below the earliest days of oil sand extraction. Inverted and above a dreamlike visitation from present day development. Taken together, a harbinger:
My buddy Nick @nicholasdobson.bsky.social looking at Fort McMurray in his rear view mirror
Tailings in the sky, or flight of the robotic hawk. Anyway you slice it we have another instalment of Empire of Blight
"Empire of Blight II" A century old infrastructure dreams of an incomprehensible expansion. The subject and dream share a smoke.
Here is one from antitourismtour.com: "Controversy swirls around Tent City, Victoria. What began as an opportunity to advocate for housing would soon become a police state involving 12-hour shifts of intimidation; “just waiting for a probable cause.” The anti-tour remembers… LEFT 2018 - RIGHT 2016
Bitumount is an abandoned plant north of Fort McKay, a "historic resource" built in 1925 and known as the place where oil was first separated from the sand. It's also terrifying and frequented by bears.
Happy to announce the availability of our new commemorative t-shirt for Alberta's most beloved/terrifying historical site and danger zone... Bitumount!
Hanging out by the mk-ultra haunted house: the Allen Memorial Institute high atop the McGill campus in Montreal.
Bitumount is a terrifying historic site (so designated by the Government of Alberta) swarming with Grizzly bears in the midst of the TAR sands:
Remembering my Mom, seen here ready for travel and hanging out with a best friend.
A pictorial movie review for Penn and Teller's documentary film "Tim's Vermeer".
(On Trumps fixation with shower water pressure) “I’m fine with side-quest Trump! What, would you go up to Hitler and be, like, ”Why are you painting? You’ve got work to do!”” -Troy Iwata
Had to take some time away from social media in general, following a bit of a slip up. Slowly getting better though…