Short Plein-air animation work that is based on the four elements and aims to highlight the subtle magic present in the natural world as well as the animation process.
2023
An in progress installation work of over 400 paintings and two animation works that reflect on the role of ritual in art making. This piece aims to explore repetition, accumulation and devotion as transcendental technologies in creative process.
Acrylic on paper, various sizes
2023
Acrylic on Paper, 4.5”x6”
Acrylic on Paper, 8”x10.5”
Acrylic on paper, 9.5”x6.5”
Acrylic on paper, 8”x8”
Acrylic on paper, 7.5”x9”
Acrylic on Canvas, 3’x4’
Interiors painted from observation from images on instagram.
Acrylic on Yupo paper, Various sizes
2022-2023
Flowers are agents of the underworld. They emerge from the soil, from the beneath, to unfurl and express their beauty for a short time before they ultimately return to the earth. We cut flowers at the height of their beauty and bring them inside to watch them die, not as torture or an act of morbidity, but as a celebration of life by honouring their ephemerality. We give flowers at major life events and their presence is a comfort to the living when someone has passed. Flowers are a meditation on finiteness, and they give us the chance to reflect on the sometimes hard to comprehend limitedness of life.
“All born to grow and grown to die” - Rex’s Blues, Townes Van Zandt
Watercolour on paper, 18”x24”
2022
Nine card oracle deck made to reflect on the symbolism of moon phases. Produced for the Moonwatchers annual show at Melt Gallery. Accompanied by a guidebook.
watercolour and ink on paper
2021
Drawings exploring repetition and image making as a form of visual meditation.
Gel pen on paper,
2017
24”x36”
30”x48”
Made to be used in my performance “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” at the Rhubarb Festival in 2013. Participants were instructed to pull a card prior to entering a room where they would lie on a table, receive reiki from me and an embroidery tattoo on the clothing they were wearing. It became a meditation on the hands’ ability to transmit, and transform through healing and creative practices.
Embroidery on Cotton,
2013
Inspired by the practices of contemporary theological and contemplative thinkers, this collaborative performative work examined how a spiritual practice gives us the tools we need to function and relate to one another, through concepts like forgiveness, humility, compassion, atonement. This piece explored healing on an inter-personal level and offered a space for strangers to gather, be still, listen, contemplate, converse and reflect.
Featured collaborators: The Toronto Sacred Harp Singing Group, Cory Bertrand, Cameron Buy, Julie Gladstone, Jenna Turk, Deciduous (Vanessa Hansen, Jason Benoit and Stacey Sproule) Alex Samaras (and his group Grex), Dawne Carleton, and Tori Whyte
performance, discussion, and collaboration
2013
