Lot 25

This series of staged photographic scenes was inspired by Coupland’s 1998 novel “Girlfriend in a Coma,” set in the area of West Vancouver’s Rabbit Lane. A work of fiction that traces the lives of a group of friends from their teenage years through to middle age, the story centres around Karen McNeil, who falls into a coma that lasts 17 years. When she awakens, the friends come together once again to face an impending apocalypse. The photographs were created in West and North Vancouver, featuring local homes, volunteer models, and cars and clothes borrowed from the community.