Weathered and Worn, 2023, Cotton paper pulp
Everyday Lighting II, Harbourfront Centre, part of DeisgnTO
Weathered and Worn is a handmade paper wall sconce that takes inspiration from Toronto’s most iconic buildings. The rib pattern mimics the concrete slabs found on the exterior façade of midcentury modern buildings dotted across the city. Expanding and undulating like fabric, the paper sculpture is malleable like its concrete counterpart. Carefully layering wet paper pulp into a mould then dried, the building of the lamp emphasizes time and process.
Weathered and Worn, 2023, Cotton paper pulp
Everyday Lighting II, Harbourfront Centre, part of DeisgnTO
2024, Hand-dyed cotton and silk embroidery thread on handmade cotton paper, 8.5 in x 11 in
Cityscape 25, 2024, cotton embroidery on handmade paper, 5.5 in x 8.5 in
2024, Cotton embroidery on handmade cotton paper, 11 in x 8.5 in
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Cityscape 25, 2024, cotton pulp, hand-dyed cotton embroidery, 5.5in x 7in
Solar Flare, 2023, botanical dyed cotton embroidery thread and inks on washi, 10.25 in x 6.75 in
Pillars of York, 2021, hand dyed cotton embroidery thread in logwood and walnut,
How They Run Deep is a paper cut installation that attempts to make the invisible visible by highlighting our city’s forgotten water ways.
How They Run Deep is a paper cut installation that attempts to make the invisible visible by highlighting our city’s forgotten water ways.
How They Run Deep is a paper cut installation that attempts to make the invisible visible by highlighting our city’s forgotten water ways.
By challenging the notion of why we care, I try and I try explores the context of repair in nature and the culpability that exist within it. Repair in nature is a contentious issue. The trauma we have instilled onto the land is great, yet as a mender I’m compelled to repair it. When faced during a time of crisis, can the complex relationship between humans and non-human species benefit each other instead of harm?
Performance, video and sound are presented as tools for exploration on Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island. High water levels have threatened the island and its collection of majestic cottonwood trees (seen in the video) have suffered greatly.
Futile gestures are repeated and pushed. Without dominance or harm, exhaustive acts of labour are performed in order to create an experience that is palpable, absurd and meaningful. My work weaves in notions of mending and consequence, heartbreak and loss, healing and resilience.
This work was made during Once Upon Water residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, September 17 to October 1, 2018. The work explores and challenges the notion of why we care, futile gestures are repeated and pushed. Without dominance or harm, exhaustive acts of labour are performed in order to create an experience that is palpable, absurd and meaningful. My work weaves in notions of mending and consequence, heartbreak and loss, healing and resilience.
2018, 14:27 minutes, HD video, sound.
The performance contemplates the relationship between humans and non-humans through gestures of healing and resilience. By challenging the notion of why we care, futile gestures and exhaustive acts of labour are performed over the course of several weeks in order to create an experience that is palpable, absurd and meaningful. The work looks into the site of Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands. In 2017, a massive flood submerged more than fifty per cent of it under water and caused extensive damage to the numerous homes and to the landscape, including the large cottonwood trees seen in the video. This performance is part of an ongoing series, Underneath the Canopy, where the narrative weaves in notions of mending and consequence, memory and loss, resilience and hope.
This work was shown in the group exhibition, Resilient Attitudes, at Beaver Hall Gallery, 2018.
Still from It grasps from an environment it once formerly knew (digital video)
Still from It grasps from an environment it once formerly knew (digital video)
Installation view It grasps from an environment it once formerly knew
Installation view It grasps from an environment it once formerly knew
Installation view It grasps from an environment it once formerly knew
