Aboriginal
captured speech writing back: Toronto
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captured speech writing back: Toronto is an iteration of The Writing Lesson developed as a large-scale billboard to be displayed on the exterior of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, ON.
The Writing Lesson
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The Writing Lesson makes reference to the visual typography of the heavy metal subgenre known as black metal in creating a vernacular mode of writing to illustrate place names in Western Canada and Washington with indigenous origins. Early iterations of black metal music created in Norway sought to resurrect aspects of indigenous pre-Christian spirituality that had been violently displaced in the Christianization of Scandinavia by acts such as the destruction of pagan temples. Through a rudimentary photographic process using a hand cut stencil, the light of the sun has burned the names of places such as Masset, Skidegate, Chilliwack, and Yakima onto black paper with the hope that more will be revealed than concealed.
Rez Gas
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Rez Gas is an ongoing body of work in which images of independent, Aboriginal-owned gas stations are faded onto black construction paper.
TRANSFORMATION
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This was created in my Creative Process class.
It is a self portrait/transformation piece.
Here, I am transforming first from myself into a totem-pole figure, and back again. The inspiration for the totem figure comes from my family's totem-pole carving traditions from the Kwickwasutaineuk, 'Namgis and Kwagiulth branches on my father's side of the family.
