The works shared here are the result of hands-on, site-based research developed through my previous projects, including Broken Forests Action/Clearcut Reanimated in a woodlot near Jordan River, BC. (2024) and Mountain Island Air residency at Wells, BC. ( 2025).
At the heart of my work is collaboration and interaction. I am interested in working alongside local artists and audiences to create work that speaks to environmental care and forest regeneration. the works invite viewers to slow down, pay closer attention, and reflect on their own relationship with the natural world.
During my time in Brazil, I will interact with local ecological landscapes, plantations, and forests. By working directly within these environments, I seek to understand how they are formed, used, and cared for through hands-on experience and dialogue.
This exploratory process is guided by the question: What lessons should be passed from one country to another? Through exchanges with local communities and artists, these encounters will become the seeds for future projects, allowing knowledge and practices gathered in one place to take root and flourish elsewhere.
At this stage, I am open to exploring which gallery space may be best suited for work #1. The installation consists of an 8 × 8-foot suspended canopy with a soft trunk extending approximately 10 feet to the ground. A space with a high ceiling would be ideal.
Work #2. In development
Living Forest is an audience participative installation on floor. Artists and viewers are invited to participate by adding elements in turn, linking them to previous contributions, allowing the work to develop in an unpredictable way and letting go of individual control. The invisible threads binding people to create together and aims to create an experience that brings people into a more attentive relationship with themselves, with each other, and with the land.
Work #3 . Film
Spirit of the Fire, highlights the role of fire in nature as both destroyer and creator. It conveys connection with wounded nature. The video features site interactive performances took in a burnt forest near Antler Creek,BC while in Mountain Island Arts residency, 2025. The video addresses universal themes of impermanence, resilience, and ecological fragility, inviting Brazilian audiences to reflect on their own forests.
Duration : 8 minutes.
