Description
The Original
Watershed by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media photography from the Misrememberings series. I created this piece using my original photography that has not been digitally altered, acrylic medium and gold.
The framed piece measures 25×26.5″. Shipping will be calculated based on location. Please note that colours and contrast vary between different monitors. The colours may not match your monitor’s display exactly. Additionally, copyright of my artwork does not transfer with purchase.
The Inspiration for Watershed by Robin Rivers
Through the Misrememberings series, I wanted to explore how memory and time fragment, reconstructing themselves into spaces that live vividly in our experience, even when they are not a faithful representation of the original.
Watershed layers two images I shot on the grounds of Château d’Orquevaux in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France: the gatehouse, and the creek that runs beside it. Together, they form the space Albertine inhabits — her shelter and her confinement, the threshold between the life she chose and the life she left behind in Paris with her love. I hand-treated each photograph with acrylic medium and gold before collaging them together — to give longing and a memory of home turned prison its proper weight.
A watershed is both a boundary and a turning point — the place where everything drains toward something else. Albertine is caught at exactly that edge. The familial and social structures that keep her isolated are not dramatic or violent. They are quiet, architectural, daily. They look exactly like a small stone house beside a river.
The Artist
Robin Rivers works across photography, collage, and text to recover the lives of women the historical record left out, overlooked, or misremembered—not as reconstruction, but as retrieval.
That work takes shape in the material each inquiry calls for: specific landscapes she photographs again and again, found photographs, writing, and archival fragments. The result sits deliberately between evidence and imagination: precise about sources while making room for intimacy, longing, and the gaps scholarship alone cannot fill. Robin creates all pieces at Studio Albertine in Vancouver, Canada—on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. This includes the territories of the xÊ·məθkwÉ™yÌ“É™m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and SÉ™lÌ“ÃlwÉ™taÊ”/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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