"Winter Backyard, Flashlight"
A hand-stitched photography zine of extended night-time exposures taken using a main source of light, flashlight, operated by hand.
Part time-lapse photography, part light painting, and meant to be an experiment in plant portraiture. A response to the question: What do the plants (and other objects in the yard) experience when waiting out the night?
See spreads and more photos here: winter backyard zine.
"Small Structures"
Spectra, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 2023
Gallery 44 Members Exhibition
Artscape Youngplace, Toronto
May 6 - 28
What looks inviting when you are in the middle of nowhere? Photographs
taken along the coast of Newfoundland — and one while wandering in Northern
Ontario — consider what makes a small building stand out in an open
landscape and what is the purpose of enclosure in nature.
Photo series as part of Spectra group exhibition, archival inkjet prints, 2021 & 2022.
"I miss everything" zine
photography from toronto and sudbury ontario.
photos show manual mistakes in rolls of film: overlays, blurry images, light leaks, winding errors.
accompanying poems discuss longing and the drawbacks of introspection. why is it unbearable to miss everything all the time?
september 2022
"I miss moments because I want them back.
I wasn't fully present. they didn't really count. which may be true but may not be true. I could have had my head turned while something amazing happened right behind me.
that could be a dream.
it could be a wish to never feel foolish.
I take a photo. later it turns out I missed the motion,
the moment, the right amount of light.
maybe there's a finger in the frame. maybe the film wasn't wound right. maybe I wasn't still enough, and the blur says something more about me. is it always about me?"
To look more closely at "I Miss Everything" and read some excerpts, go here. You may also request a copy if you like.
lumen photography /
solar photograms
produced during a workshop on Toronto Island facilitated by contemporary photography centre, Gallery 44, led by Julie Pasila.
an exploration in foraging and experimenting with paper types, exposure lengths, plant material and chemical processes.
Foraged plant material composition on silver gelatin paper.
maple key chemigrams
plant material was soaked in a solution and placed on silver gelatin paper in direct sunlight with strokes of honey painted on its surface.
"PLEASE LISTEN"
Briarpatch Magazine, March 2021
A photo essay taken at various social-justice demonstrations during the COVID-19 lockdown. The images invite the viewer to imagine the voice of the subject, and to empathize with the fear of being silenced.
"I often feel overwhelmed by the pressure to speak clearly, especially when I want to vocalize pain and frustration. I fear the moment when the listener decides that I am incorrect, uninformed, or too self-interested to be speaking truthfully. I worry that to be believed I must be cordial."
Runner-up in the Writing in the Margins contest. Read the essay here.
"welcome to house" & "anything can be a cliché"
illustration and poem for the 2021
bp press day planner
Anything can be a cliché, spring 2021
Anything can be a cliché. You can point at most things and call them uninspired.
Humans have been existing for a while and they definitely figured out how to have fun a long time ago.
As if eternal knowledge was not always passing through the air and earth, I think in terms of newness.
I know who to blame for this claustrophobic concept: that the modern is the same version of the recent, but with minor exceptions distributed over time.
I prefer the thrill of loosening my grip on the idea of perpetual choice.
I don't want to get caught up in wordiness. You try to convey a thought, action, feeling, memory, and you stop expressing yourself to re-consider and re-word. Every thought that bubbles up my throat should be free to confuse others and wobble through your ears.
The Matrix (1999) is not actually a good movie. I tried watching it. The fantasy of destruction is most enjoyed if the viewer recognizes the value in tearing things down. I did not like that the movie made so many things explode for no reason, explosions only look cool some of the time.
Many other things look cool when gazed upon adoringly.
Like a bird that jumps from a ledge and dips down to the ground before it flies.
Sound - Audio collage
"The year is 2019. Lucia is about to graduate elementary school, Paula is painting her nails. The sisters giggle and talk on top of a track of hazz harp, a type of music Lucia can't stand."
This is an audio recording of two sisters sharing an evening. At one point their father walks in to ask some questions. Dorothy Ashby music plays in the background the whole time. Take a listen if you like.
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