in_your_painting, 2022 is part of a series of browser-based works exploring quotation, collage, and language. Drawing from the history of Dada poetry,
in_your_painting uses a hand-coded computer program to generate a series of phrases, which seem to lead us through someone else’s space.
The narrative is partially constructed through a random sampling of titles from the mid-twentieth-century paintings of Balthus, all of which depict the young female body.
Printed iterations of this work were included in the exhibitions
and a Rag in the Other at the Alternator Centre and
We can only hint at this with words at the Gordon Smith Gallery for Candian Art.
to-do-to-do, 2021 is a collaborative interactive website created with
Matthis Grunsky for the
Number 3 Gallery SPAM series.
The project, developed in the height of the COVID-19 lock-down, features a series of small hand-coded website that explore the act of list making as tool for navigating times of uncertainty and isolation.
Special thanks to all the list-makers who shared their personal to-do lists with us
Blank Page Melancholia, 2020 is a browser-based work created for the School for Poetic Computation's
Digital Love Languages.
The website samples from a collection of texts to generate ever-changing observations, affirmations and words of encouragement for anyone feeling stuck.
Inside Out, 2018 is a collaborative project developed with
Matthis Grunsky and the mobile workspace
Site Factory in Vancouver, BC.
Reconstructed studio objects (blank canvases, chairs, ladders, easels) are staged within the space of a modified school bus, becoming a fractured screen for a shifting projection of pattern and colour.
The projected colours, sampled randomly from an archive of historical artworks, act as a method of mapping the transformation of three-dimensional space into a flattened, two-dimensional picture, mimicking the flat space of a painting.
This project emerged from an exploration into the trope of the artist’s studio, its depiction throughout art history, and its relevance amidst a “post-studio” condition currently dictated by prohibitive rental costs.