Listening to prismatic-forces-portals-refracted-facets-layered-breath-waves-light-medicinal-color-(re)connection-rooted-water-revelations, I am inspired by the resonance of textures and patterns - seen, heard and intuited. I embrace chance as a co-creative element.
I have experimented with audio-visual portraiture, audio and slow walks, durational print works, sound collage, and community-based art. Currently, I am compelled by papercutting. Paper is a material that is at once ephemeral and imbued with mnemonic expression. While destined to decomposition, paper holds visible each mark, cut, drop and fold. Through papercutting I enjoy slow, precise, hand-made work - a meditative, mathematical and subtractive process. Light, shadow, and reflection are employed to bring these works to fruition.
Ideas for my art works and projects often emerge while walking. Through attuned walking, which entails observing sensory details and being attentive to the affect of encounters, I also forage for source material (such as soundscapes, photographic images of textures, and plants for inks) for my works.
My interest in the prism of collective memory and co-creativity extends to a parallel research-creation practice as an art educator and art historian. My doctoral dissertation (2019, Art Education, Concordia University - with Dr. Kathleen Vaughan), explored walking as a creative process and form of artistic expression. Insights from twelve artists who walk and work in the region of Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyaang-Montréal are shared in the format of audio-visual portraits. My masters thesis (2011, Art History, Concordia University - with Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette) focused on multi-vocal methods for documenting co-creative collaborations in community settings.
Since 2012, I have taught in the Fine Arts department at Dawson College, where I teach art history through the lens of multi-vocal art historical narratives and exhibition-based learning. My art and research-creation work have been presented in Montréal, Banff, Vancouver, Brussels, Lisbon, and New York.