Wood Work is comprised of seven short video sequences, ranging in duration from 56 seconds to 1:49 seconds. The videos use as their source footage 16mm film shot in the Lower Mainland in the 1930’s by Alfred E Booth.

Carol Sawyer's video segments collectively titled Wood Work provide a fragmentary glimpse into the history of the logging and lumber industries in BC, employing historic local 16mm film footage shot in the 1930s by Alfred E. Booth. The source footage shows first growth trees being cut down by hand with axes and handsaws, sorted in booming grounds, and sawn into lumber. All of these activities are at the heart of Vancouver's history - a town founded on the site of a sawmill. The artist's careful selection and processing of these source images brings this history back into the present. Inserted into the flow of fast-paced modern advertising on the CoreVision Screens, the images seem grainy and dream-like, as if a memory of the land has returned to haunt the present.