Ice Huts
2007 — 2020 / Locations Throughout Canada and the Northern United States
My Ice Huts series explores a seasonal, off the grid, architectural form that must be transportable, while still being weather resistant. This ability to endure extreme winter cold is a complex challenge with unlimited solutions, each as personal as it's owner.
— Richard Johnson
Limited Edition prints.
40 x 40 in. Edition of 3
$4200 Unframed, $5600 Framed + HST
31 x 31 in. Edition of 15
$3000 Unframed, $4120 Framed + HST
20 x 20 in. Edition of 25
$1800 Unframed, $2450 Framed + HST
Essays
Reflections On The Most Basic Buildings
by MARK KINGWELL
And now the brightly painted hut is a beacon, an island, a ship struggling upon a hostile sea. Every one of us knows the feeling of profound relief and comfort that rises within us when, after exposure, we reach a place of shelter and warmth. It is perhaps the most basic of human responses, the way a smell of woodsmoke even on an urban street can transport us immediately to the campfire, the cave, the fellowship of temporary safety. The weather, that unruly god, has been placated once more. We will not perish today.
Ice Huts
by MARCUS SCHUBERT
A striking feature of Johnson’s observations - considered as objects with aesthetic merit - the conventions used in the making of these curious buildings seem universal in conception but highly individual in execution; a form of renegade architecture that verges on the development of a vernacular folk art tradition.