“Abstraction of a feeling” 2017 - 2020
My work connects to the history of abstract painting and ponders the inexplicable, yet also containing fragments of what we touch on a daily basis, of the everyday, the utilitarian, and the wearable. Working primarily with, through, and on fabric, I create soft sculptural paintings, fabric-based installations, and watercolours of fabric-like forms. Through both process and materials, I strive to embrace change, to be responsive to specific places and where I am located, and incorporate flexible systems of learning and making. I am curious to explore the intersection of material and the unknowable, the ecology of places, and the things that hold us, care for us, and comfort us. These motivations have led me to explore material such as working with natural dyes inks sourced from my immediate environments and repurposed textiles and materials. These choices are also informed by the idea of material thinking (listening/working/learning in relationship with materials) and considerations of how human (and beyond human) beings are interconnected with material.
This project was created with the support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
