“Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.” ~ Miriam Toews
I am a sometime celebrity photographer, visual artist, video maker, cinephile and mom. I found home in Brooklyn, after growing up in the Canadian prairie and studying art in Vancouver, BC, and London, England. My artistic practice is documentary in style, and is an exploration of both my rural roots and chosen home, New York City, illustrating their parallels and paradoxes, and the deep relationship they share with me as an artist.
I am interested in photography as it relates to, distorts, and memorializes time, and acts as a proxy for memory itself. I love experimenting with film and film cameras, to further explore the deconstruction of time the very act photographing represents, the nostalgia it incites, and the revisionist history it constructs.
What I make is often a reflection on the concept of home, although for me there is an opposing sense of alienation and a feeling of being somewhere between here and there. With my camera I explore abandoned dwellings, rural isolation, urban decay, living collection
