Darren Rigo
Hello, my name is...
Darren Rigo.
I was born in....
A hospital in Milton, ON.
I currently live in....
A wee apartment in Toronto.
It all started when....
I was six or seven, and I used to go on adventures around my parents farm ...and when I would wake up early to collect the maple sap in the spring before getting on the bus for school.
Since then my work has become...
more complex. When I moved from the sticks into the big city I gained perspective on how most of Western society functions; how we relate to each other and to nature. I met people who had never ambled aimlessly trough a forest, or squeezed the milk from a milkweed or watched the sun light up the low fog over a field in the fall mornings. I learned that more than 80% of our population lives in urban centres and that very few people can even begin understand the intimate relationship with nature I grew up with and feel is so essential.
My favorite tool of the trade is...
shameless self-promotion: WWW.DARRENRIGO.COM ...and using the palm of my hand to measure the quality of light, good light excites me.
My ideal work environment...
is a pine forest at sunrise.
I spend my days/nights...
daydreaming. I'm an ideas person. My mom says I'm absent minded (I frequently would put the cereal in the fridge and the milk in the pantry) but its only because I always have a new idea I'm mulling over in my head.
I'm currently under the influence of...
my amazing OCAD thesis panel ...and Joel Sternfeld.
I waste a lot of...
...I don't.
It sure would be nice to have a dumpster full of...
old family photographs or quality astroturf.
My buried treasure will consist of....
a Canada Council for the Arts production grant.
and be guarded by....
an assessment committee easily swayed by my cunning linguistics.
I wish more people saw the value in...
the simple things that really count.
My last word(s)...
would be, "To die will be an awfully big adventure."
