I WORKED IN A PRINT SHOP IN MONTREAL FOR YEARS AND WHILE I WAS THERE I DID MY BEST TO FIND WAYS TO MINIMIZE WASTE THAT INEVITABLY HAPPENS WHEN WORKING IN PRODUCTION. I SET ASIDE ALL OF THE WEIRD SIZED SCRAP PAPER TOO SMALL FOR OUR AVAILABLE PRODUCTS. IN THE MORNINGS I WOULD CALIBRATE OUR PRINTERS TO VERIFY THEY WERE PRINTING TRUE TO COLOUR, AND I MADE COLOUR BLOCKS TO PRINT. HUMIDITY IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN PRINTING AND YOU WOULD BE AMAZED AT HOW DIFFERENT COLOURS WILL PRINT BASED ON WHAT THE WEATHER IS.
2019
MY SISTER LOVES PUZZLES AND I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY YOU’D DO THAT WHEN YOU COULD DO THIS INSTEAD. I COULD SPEND HOURS MAKING RECREATIONS OF MY FAVOURITE ARTWORKS, THIS ONE OF COURSE IS BASED OFF A SELF PORTRAIT BY MATISSE. I SPENT A LOT OF TIME COLLAGING AS A KID, WE WOULD BE AT A COTTAGE BY THE BEACH AND I’D BE INSIDE MAKING COLLAGES OF CITIES I MIGHT LIKE TO LIVE IN.
2010
ONE OF MY MOST CREATIVE CLOSE FRIENDS HAS ALWAYS LIVED FAR AWAY FROM ME AND WE HAVE HAD A VARIETY OF PROJECTS OVER THE YEARS TO CONNECT AND PLAY DESPITE SO MUCH OF OUR LIVES BEING LIVED APART. THIS WAS A ZINE I MADE FOR HER FULL OF COLLAGE AND STORIES THAT HAVE SOME TRUE FACTS IN THEM, BUT ARE MOSTLY MADE UP, PURPOSEFULLY DREAM LIKE BUT ALSO FULL OF CONVINCING DETAILS TO CREATE A FEELING OF NOSTAGLIA AND INTIMACY.
I’VE INCLUDED PICTURES OF THE TEXT SEPARATELY SO IT’S EASIER TO READ IF YOU CLICK ON THE IMAGE.
2017
IN THE WINTER OF 2023 WE SPENT A FEW MONTHS LIVING IN A FAMILY COTTAGE ON CAPE FORCHU, NS. WE HAD KIND OF RETREATED FROM MEXICO AND THANKFULLY HAD SOMEWHERE TO LAND AFTER THE TURMOIL OF DEFEAT. DURING OUR TIME THERE I DISCOVERED AN AMAZING LITTLE PRINTSHOP RUN BY A WOMAN NAMED CECIL DAY. SHE IS A CELEBRATED NOVA SCOTIA ARTIST AND A TREASURE I STUMBLED INTO.
I WAS WORKING THROUGH DIGESTING MY EXPERIENCE IN MEXICO, I STARTED ON A SMALL BODY OF WORK THAT SADLY NEVER REALLY WAS FULLY WORKED THROUGH. I’M PRESENTING THE WORK I DID MAKE HERE, ALTHOUGH I DO NOT FEEL THESE ARE FINISHED PIECES.
CHRONIC LONELINESS HAS EBBED AND FLOWED THROUGHOUT MY LIFE AS A CONSTANT THEME, I OFTEN TAKE ABSURD AND DETAILED MEASURES TO AVOID BENG MISUNDERSTOOD. WHEN YOU PRESENT YOURSELF TO NEW PEOPLE, AND THEY SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHO YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE, IT CAN BE BIZARRE AND ERODING.
INTAGLIO, SOME WITH CHINE COLLE. 12 X 10
2023
MY FOREVER MUSE, MY VACANT CAPTAIN, MY CAT DOLLY.
SCREENPRINT 12 X 10
2012
1996-2015
THIS SENTENCE IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW COMPLICATED THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CAN BE. ONE WORD CAN HOLD MANY MEANINGS! HOW FAR INTO THE SENTENCE CAN YOU GET BEFORE YOU’RE CONFUSED?
LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS 18 X 16
2012
THREE MONOPRINTS FROM ONE INTAGLIO PLATE. THESE PRINTS WERE QUITE LARGE AND I REWORKED THAT PLATE MANY TIMES IN DIFFERENT VARIATIONS TO COUNTER THE EXPENSE OF WORKING WITH THAT MUCH METAL.
A SELF PORTRAIT OF HOW I THOUGHT I WAS BEING PERCEIVED IN MY FIRST YEAR OF UNIVERSITY.
INTAGLIO 40 X 25
2011
A DOCUMENTATION OF THE MOST COMMON LESBIAN HAIRSTYLES IN 2011.
LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT 17 X 12
2011
MONOPRINT WITH SOY BASED INKS
2023