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The Pasta Project (2023-ongoing) currently takes the shape of one-off workshops delivered through different non-profit organizations, and in the future, hopefully, also in gallery spaces and other alternative venues. The workshop’s title changes according to how the organization best sees fit to title the workshop for their audience. This is…

Knife Skills in the Gallery, 2023 performed at The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS Materials: People, tables, tablecloths, knives, kitchen towels, cutting boards, vegetables, etc. Knife Skills in the Gallery is a workshop (June 8, 2023, 12-1PM) but it is also a work that comments on the use and feel…

Dear Carrie ( 2022) was the result of a creative mapping project which began with the intention of following the directive given to me in a class during my Master of Art in Art Education program at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. The class was with Dr….

For a limited time I was available for Zoom dialogues. This was offered as pre-booked 1-1 Zoom sessions of 30 minutes long. Project start: March 2, 2022 Project end: May 2, 2022 My Dialogue Piece was inspired by artist Lee Lozano’s Dialogue Piece (1969) and was very, very loosely based…

November 2022: Research Notes is on hiatus except for when I can activate it for specific reasons. Dear Reader: I’m currently not writing much on Research Notes as I am enrolled in a Master of Art in Art Education program at NSCAD University in Halifax, NS. When it was running,…

Ruminations (working title) is a project I started in June 2021 when I started using a studio space outside of my domestic domain. I thought I was going to get back to stitching but then this installation based work emerged. Some other images of this work-in-progress can be seen at…

image of yarn-wrapped sticks and a detail of the fraser river

Fraser River Walks (October 2019 to March 2020, Vancouver) A project consisting of tiny Polaroids and a collection of found twigs and sticks that I routinely collected from daily walks along the Fraser River. These sticks were then brought into my home studio where I wrapped them in yarn. Behind…

“How do we connect with place each time we move city or country?” Acts of Resilience was an instruction to myself to cultivate a feeling of control. It consisted of two sets of repetitive acts, act I: step outside into the woods, choose a stick/a fallen twig, saw off the…

As a nomad during the formative years of my life, and later as an immigrant, a sense of cultural loss, and the search for a place to call home have been preoccupations that have persistently emerged in my work. In Noticing, I contemplated my interior landscape during a six-month period…

Trail of Hope documents a cross-country road trip and move in 2019 from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, through the U.S., and ending in Vancouver, BC.This work captures the provinces and states traversed as well as religious signage encountered along the way. On this, and several other road trips to the…

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