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I am an artist and writer currently working between Toronto, Montreal and various locations south of the 49th parallel. Working in the expanded field of sculpture and installation, my practice encompasses new media and post-studio elements such as gardening, workshops and meals. Diverse in form, my work is characterized by the stylistic influences of historical conceptualism, land art and experimental media.
Much of my recent work has investigated the time and politics of contemporary ecologies. With a tone both poetic and critical, I aim to sidestep the frustrations marring current debates around ecology. Projects such as Temagami Crescent (2012), Mongrels (2011), Rates of Accumulation (2010) and Scatter (2007) initiate encounters with marginal landscapes and flora, abandoning received histories of North America in favor of unsettling and abstracted narratives. Operating on an entirely different scale, Plants In Your Pants (2007) is a hands-on intervention into the politics of vaginal ecologies in patriarchal times.
I cherish the moment when it is no longer possible to distinguish a work of art from its reception—when some aspect of the work comes to new life because it seeps out of its bounds, intermingling with its viewers. This is the phase change through which art ceases to be purely representative or reflective and becomes political. Through all of my pursuits, it is the desire for this transformation that keeps me going.
