Re[Collection]
Re[Collection] is a gathering and tending of cast away “belongings”. Harboured remnants are recalled, re-scripted and amended with a renewed spirit of receptivity and devotion. Through ritualistic reckoning, the re-imagined objects are inscribed with attunement to the power of archetypes.
THE DOWSING DRESS
Soaked in words from plunges into daily creative rituals and collected writings on belonging, The Dowsing Dress holds ley lines for divining unseen influences.
Lifting the veils of inheritance summons resistance and acceptance as new vows are consciously expressed.
The iconography of the dress is overwritten as cloak, draper, selvage and witness to experience.
Materials: Traces of the artist’s wedding dress, Japanese paper, ink, cyanotype blueprints, journal entries.
2023
THE MILK DRESS
“What do I need to know today? Who am I? What is my single-minded purpose?” Three inner directives invoke the midwife of receptivity and awareness. Responses are bound together with other inherited wisdoms and collected adages.
They are reassembled here as a kind of braille of the spirit.
Materials: Altered wedding dress worn by the artist’s mother, milk collection bottles from farm in rural Quebec, stitched cotton, collected adages.
2023
Fixed on points near large bodies of open water, life buoys offer a ring of safety in crisis on the water. Crisis offers an opportunity to step into new awareness; to cut yourself adrift to change or return to the familiarity of a safe harbour. The circular laws of both alchemy and physics dictate that matter can be neither created nor destroyed and you can only gain in proportion to what you lose.
Materials: Discarded life buoy, paint.
"We know what it is for, we who have used it. Otherwise it is a piece of maritime floss, some sundry equipment." - Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck
2023
Private collection
AMULET
Collected off the ground over the course of several years by the artist and her friends, circular washers take on new catechism as talismans of wholeness.
Stacked vertebrae articulate the support we receive along our journey and prompt us to consider what we cherish, covet and collect…and why.
Each disc reminds us of the rewards of noticing and gives evidence that we tend to find what we’re looking for.
Materials: Found rusted washers, ribbon, velvet cushion.
2023
SHADOWBOX SKETCHES - POUCH COVE
A trio of shadowbox fibre sketches were created in the heart of winter during an artist residency in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland. The gift of time and space allowed for the [re]collection of everyday objects found at the local convenience store.
BEACHCOMB
Materials: Muslin, Newfoundland pease pudding pouch from Pouch Cove convenience store, cyanotype.
2023
Private Collection
PORTHOLE
Materials: Muslin, Newfoundland pease pudding pouch from Pouch Cove convenience store, cyanotype.
2023
Private Collection
HEARTWEAR
Materials: A pair of work gloves from hardware section of Pouch Cove, Newfoundland convenience store.
2023
Private collection
