Artist Statement
My work questions how place and community help us to construct our individual and regional identities. By gathering materials such as salvaged fabric and plants for natural dyes, I am connected to my local landscape and community. My art making practice involves direct, multisensory encounters with place through walking and foraging, acts which consider concepts of belonging and displacement. An emphasis on process and the physicality of the materials are integral to my work. I now make my home in Nova Scotia and though collaboration with the landscape, I come to feel rooted.
My work questions how place and community help us to construct our individual and regional identities. By gathering materials such as salvaged fabric and plants for natural dyes, I am connected to my local landscape and community. My art making practice involves direct, multisensory encounters with place through walking and foraging, acts which consider concepts of belonging and displacement. An emphasis on process and the physicality of the materials are integral to my work. I now make my home in Nova Scotia and though collaboration with the landscape, I come to feel rooted.
