The Globe and Mail

Pierre Thibault draws in the snow with fire. He cuts a kilometre-long trench across a frozen lake in northern Quebec and lights it up with 1,000 candles. This is where his architecture begins. Caught on camera, the flames make a startling orange geometry that looks like it could travel across the white sheet of snow forever. Thibault's fire suggests an impossible invasion of one element against another. This is unlike the small, contained fires we gather around for warmth during cookouts. Thibault is operating at that other, formidable kind of scale: wide open and raw like the mythical landscapes of Canada.