ABOUT ME

What can’t be found in reality? If it already exists in our minds, what does it take to convince us it is real? My work deals with myths and how their landscapes project and reflect identities, constructing an image of reality. Images of the mutant are utilized as a canvas to explore the potential of the hybrid flesh. I'm interested in creating a visual dialogue with the landscape by embodying sculptural creatures that both extend and restrain the body.

There is an extension of the body through the treatment of sculpture and costume as the artifacts of the posthuman. These objects are displayed as evidence of the creature’s existence, and often appear as corporeal vessels. Stories about anthropomorphic beings and metamorphosis are used as beacons to traverse through the physical making of the creature.

By merging the fabricated evidence of the creature (sculpture and video) with the viewing experience of the “sighting” I am working with the plurality of different responses to viewing reality – credulity, skepticism, and the suspension of disbelief – to transport beyond the orbit of the ordinary into the fiction of matter.

I'm a sculpture graduate from the Alberta College of Art and Design and am currently in my first year MFA at Concordia University in Montreal. I've received grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council and have participated in residencies at Est-Nord-Est, Art Shanty Projects and Struts Gallery.

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