the Prince Haunty Of Wales bridge project
by jwc 3o2
the north span of the Prince Of Wales railbridge from Lemieux Island, Ontario, to Hull, Québec, was built in 188o of 7 cages with a total of 123 upright girders on each side.
i don't know how long ago the haunters appeared along the east side's I-beams (mid-2ooos?) but there had been a haunter for every beam but one (which instead bears the legend "HAUNTY"); 122 small paintings done over the course of a coupla days.
i wish i'd had the presence of mind to shoot these years ago: many have disappeared under further paint or, as will be seen, "modified" by others & the colours have faded. the intrusion of rust can only be seen as a fortuitous trade-off.
this set preserves what remains (i noted on my most recent day of shooting these that some i'd shot a few days previously had been vandalized). i've imported a few shots from previous shoots where those shots preserve an earlier state.
the numbering system i've applied assigns a letter to each cage (A through G) & a number to each girder, both running north to south, which i believe is the order they were painted in.
& though i've tweezed these considerably, the different lighting effects are due to either very orange sunsets bouncing off the river onto the rust, a blue sky with the sun clouded over, or a grey overcast.
