I’ve just added a new project to my online portfolio. It’s called “Cause & Effect” and takes the shape of a zine (a DIY produced small magazine). It is a gift-card size zine made from one sheet of paper. The sheet is folded enough times to produce 16 pages. The…
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How can I, as an artist, intervene in the public sphere? How can I add my voice to an issue that matters to me? I have discovered that taking art to the streets or to social media platforms allows me to reach a broad audience and not one pre-selected, so…
A few weeks ago I started playing around with paper and paint to generate some ideas for a contemporary fabric quilt. I had a 5 x 5 inch accordion journal that I made last year, so I started working in this with the idea that the whole journal would be…
Technological Infiltration is a new media piece I created while I was taking a collage course at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. It is a 53-second audio piece about government, the future, and fear. In this course I explored collage not as a technique of cutting and pasting…
It’s pretty neat to see your work in a book. Two years ago I responded to a call for art journal pages to be included in a book. I think it was in 2014 when I got the news that 5 of my images would be included. I think I…
Hello, it’s been a while since I’ve popped in here. Last September I began my visual art studies at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, so that has kept me quite busy. I am exploring new directions in my work which is reflected in the addition of my 7-day…
My intention with #sthgotherthanaselfie was to tweak how I use Instagram to make it a more meaningful platform for sharing. This idea emerged in response to the overabundance of selfies and ‘beautiful life’ pictures on Instagram. I am also reacting to the proliferation of North American content—of course dependent on…
In 2015, a very small selection of my art journal pages were published in the book A World of Artist Journal Pages curated by Dawn Devries Sokol. The book contains over 1000 art journal pages by 230 artists from 30 countries. This is an inspiring book that documents the power…
Here is another cross-stitched piece completed by a participant (Elizabeth) at one of the Stitching with Purpose workshops I ran this past summer (2014). I asked Elizabeth why she chose that word for her piece and I recall her recounting a day when she had many things to do, one…
I’d like to share with you a craftivist project my sister Luisa recently completed. Luisa is new to craftivism. She was formally introduced to it at my first craftivism related workshop, “Stitching with Purpose,” that I delivered at Vancouver’s Mini Maker Faire in June. She had no idea what she…