Bruno (2011) is a rural community on the Canadian Interior Plains within Treaty 6 Territories, home to roughly six hundred residents and surrounded by fields of canola, flax, wheat, and barley. Ninety kilometres east of Saskatoon, its Main Street forms a compact sequence of early‑ to mid‑20th‑century false‑front buildings that continue to serve local households and nearby family farms. The grain elevator and active rail line remain the street’s primary vertical markers.

The project presents this streetscape through a steady, sequential structure, placing each building in relation to the next to form a continuous register of cafés, service buildings, commercial fronts, and multipurpose spaces. Community members—shopkeepers, tradespeople, and residents—appear alongside the architecture, reflecting the social rhythms that shape the town’s daily life.

Produced as an artist‑made edition through Publication Studio Vancouver, the work adopts the accessible format of a colouring book. This choice introduces a quiet shift in how the typology is encountered: the images invite participation, allowing readers to engage directly with the material and to consider the street not only as documentation but as a lived, adaptable space. The format subtly echoes earlier artist‑book strategies that use serial form to frame the everyday.

During this period, Tyler Brett lived on Main Street while working for Neil Manderscheid’s owner‑operated construction company and contributing to the Bruno Arts Bank with his partner, Kerri Reid. His proximity to the street’s architecture and its occupants informs the project’s attention to both the built forms and the people who inhabit them.

Softcover
103 pp (including table of contents and 49 drawings)
10.5 x 7 inches
ISBN: 978­1­927385­456

1st edition of 60,

with rubberstamped cover page

bound, cut & printed in 2016 by

Publication Studio Vancouver