Approaches storytelling as a part of our everyday lives and explores the different ways artists, whether from ancestors or through myths, experience and create stories, either re-telling history or recounting new stories from their own experience.
Utilizing beading, basket weaving, dreamcatcher technique, hide, and sinew to understand the intergenerational effects of the Residential Schools.
Using motion capture to document the evanescent beauty of a dancer’s movement through time. The image lingers, slowly fading away conveying the body’s momentum and elegance like the Northern Lights, dynamic displays of multicoloured luminosity.
One golden autumn day, I looked skyward to the honking of southbound Canada Geese. Reminded of practicing scales on the piano with each bird a note, I envisioned a musical staff superimposed, or “tagged”, over the iconic flying V formation. Suddenly, musical notes and sounds seemed to be hiding everywhere.
Nets are patterns that catch and hold. The patterns of our lives also ensnare us. Often, those patterns are beneficial routines, but there are many patterns that hold us back. This series of work is a consideration of patterns generally as well as the work it takes to construct and deconstruct those patterns.
