Alison Fu

Date Stamp is the result examining the residential areas of the City of Vancouver through documenting its sidewalks and the houses associated with them. Date stamps as well as imprints of street names are found only on the corner sections of sidewalks in some residential areas in Vancouver. The superimposed sidewalk image is displayed overtop an image of the house in which the sidewalk lays perpendicular to. This is in order to address the history of that particular location. The dates in the Date Stamp series of 24 images range from 1926 to 1958, and quite often the dates no longer correspond to the houses that surround it. Residential areas of Vancouver are developing at a rapid rate and although some date stamps are preserved and salvaged, the history associated to them is just as quickly being forgotten.