The North York Project (Child is Father of the Man) was exhibited in 2009 in Toronto and Ottawa. An image from the series was featured as the Slate magazine cover for the Contact 09 festival in Toronto. The series was also featured in Flash Forward 2009, a hardcover publication focusing on photographic artists from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, with international distribution. The North York Project documents the mostly recreational environments that are synonymous with my childhood experience growing up in the suburb of North York, Ontario. Child is Father of the Man references an 1802 William Wordsworth poem called My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (a slightly misquoted version of that verse was the title of the 1968 Blood, Sweat & Tears Album called Child is Father to the Man). Beyond a simple metaphor, Wordsworth points out that our childhood experiences constantly underlie our adulthood dispositions. The North York Project (Child is Father of the Man) documents sites that have psychic weight associated with my childhood experience, about which I am decidedly ambivalent. On the one hand, the images illustrate a relatively wealthy and privileged setting, and epitomize a Modernist urban planner’s dream-come-true. On the other, they critique the wastefulness inherent in urban sprawl, and exemplify the de-humanizing, cold and depressing reality of a culture reinventing itself according to perfectly rational ideals. In this way, they are both documented fact and constructed fiction.