Uncommon Common Art 2016
Pursuing an interest in communication technologies Mosher responds to Kings County’s unique place in communications history. Under Edward Duke of Kent’s instruction a visual semaphore line was constructed intersecting present day Kings County. Mosher reimagines and modernizes this colonial military communications line for civilian use.
Edward’s visual semaphore line began operating in 1797 and ran from Halifax, to Windsor, through Kings County, and then on to Annapolis Royal. A boat crossing the Bay of Fundy relayed messages to St. John and on to Fredericton. Mosher’s communication line traces the old route by crossing the Annapolis Valley from the community of Canaan on the mountain to Woodville, 15kms away on the North Mountain.
