Installations
immersive textile and poetry installations using cloth, teabags, ink, receipts, and thread
01
A Resting Place
This interactive piece asks the audience to fill its net with written memories of home. It is installed in corners and acts as a small soft place of refuge. Made with cloth, twine, lace and paper.
02
The Tunnel
This piece acts as an abstracted journal, altering space the way that ideas can. Here, poetry leaves its habitual canvas of the page and becomes architectural. The tunnel is a passage towards somewhere else, somewhere between an imagined reality and a real one.
Made with cloth, tea bags, receipts, lace, thread, and ink. Dyed with flowers, coffee, tea and turmeric.
03
How to
Mend a
Fracture
Part II
This zine reads as a humourous and philisophical how-to manual. It was originally made to accomany a soundscape which was activated by the viewers' touch of each page. This installation aims to sew things together by reimagining ruptures in a playful way, as a source of joy and potential. This is the sister piece to "Community" (below). Made with receipts, cardboard, ink, glue, and cordage.
04
Community
This set of self portraits visually manifests the archetypes of the artist's inner selves. Each archetype is named and dramatized for comedic effect. This is as much a map towards a sense of self as it is a philosophy on individualism. Community pokes fun at people who to define themselves in finite ways, perhaps in an effort to maintain control or through an appreciation of singularity. On the other hand, Community offers us a fracturing and ever-evolving inclusive version of the self, one that exists with inherent multiplicity. Through this lens, what is foreign within us translates to how we explore the unknown outside of the self. This piece is interactive; each portrait can be spun to reveal a mirror. Made with cardboard, steel pipes, acrylic paint, mirror, and photo paper.
05
Vase
This piece splits the physical and the ephemeral, surrounding themes of identity, belonging, and un-belonging. It includes a poem fragment from an original work entitled Let Oceans Wash Through You. Made with glass, water, ink, and flowers.
06
I See You
This large-scale textile piece includes a poem exploring themes of vulnerability, intimacy, and reciprocal care. I See You aims to take small and personal moments and make them feel universal by allowing them to be presented in a large format that takes up space. Made with cloth, acrylic paint, and turmeric.
07
What to Do in a Crisis
This piece is a flag, a scroll, a spell, a picture book. What to Do in a Crisis is a folk remedy for overthinkers, a tonic for the overwhelmed, and a poultice for those exhausted by political absurdity and grief. This piece says "no one is coming for you, so stop thinking about it and do anything". Made with rose hips, coffee, cloth, thread, burlap, and ink.
08
All the
Seasons
This installation is the visual partner to an original poem entitled A Pair of Arms Plummeting. The poem uses the imagry of bedding, sheets, and table cloths as vessels through which to experinece seasonal change and love. Made with cloth, thread, and wood.
09
Tea Bag
Installations
The piece on the right is entitled How to be Animal and below is Mapping Networks. Both works include poems or poem fragments and center on themes of fragility, interconnectivity, and duality. Made with tea bags, cloth, thread, and ink.
