On Air

A recent installation piece....

On Air
installation, 2012
fan, plastic, tape, silkscreen
(ventilateur, plastique, scotcher, sérigraphie)

Thirty-Five Minutes From Town

My wonderfully creative family; my sister, mom, dad and I, have mounted a family art show at the Art on Kent gallery of the Art Department in Lindsay. We installed on Sunday, the show features work in printmaking, collage, sculpture, installation and video. It's really interesting to look at our work together and see the correlations between all of our practices, both aesthetically and conceptually.

Here's the invite!

New Folio

Just finished making a folio out of my newly hand-printed paper!

polyhedrons

So I am back in Toronto, and finally making things again.

This is a thing I made today. Plenty more in this series to come...

(copper etching with chine-collé)

'don't touch my chicken stone'

'don't touch my chicken stone'
a recent sketchbook page with pen and oil pastel, giving my gemstone legs

model chairs

I'm carrying my little point and shoot digital canon camera everywhere with me here in Paris, not necessarily to get touristy shots, I carry it in Toronto just as much, but this is my way of journaling. Instead of writing everything down I just go snap happy and keep a kind of visual record of the things around me. 

Here are some amusing things from the other day, the first being a window filled with models wearing garbage bags - too timely since I had just been in a couple churches that up until easter, cover any Jesus statuettes with a purple cloth - they look eerily similar to these mannequins. 

The second photo is taken from the roof of the Grande Mosquée de Paris, it's a beautiful mosque filled with wonderful gardens and mosaic tile work. I don't know if it's the season or if they generally don't tend this one area of this rooftop garden, but I enjoyed the contrast of the industrial view in the middle of such a lovely oasis...

laser hands and head waves

This is what I make when I try to trick my brain into thinking I'm in a creative mood. I'm not. 

But it does help a little. Also it's not done.

As per usual here, my collection of collage material is fairly sparse, so for this one I resorted to a picture from the right wing newspaper that's given out for free at my school. It's an art school, and they give out the religious and the right wing newspapers. Backwards?

My studio has a serious lack in terms of any kind of table/surface to work on, so this is my set-up: 

a muskoka chair for me, a school chair for my pens, a stool for my laptop and a typically green 

parisian portfolio as a lap-desk. Seems to work juuuust fine.