synopsis

i wanted to create a gesture - in the form of this work - of respect, gratitude and love for the land and all the indigenous beings (including all non-humans) of that land. when people visit victoria, bc of 2012, they see a lot of homages to british culture: the infrastructure, buildings, tea-shops, manicured parks and gardens. but it quickly became evident to me, when walking in garry oak ecosystems or on less traveled beaches that these edifices are a mere recent ideological encumbrance, which were hypocritically and violently imposed.

a nuanced and poetic version of history is never ready at hand - its constantly reformulating beyond the sum of all beings’ imaginations. those who would attempt to have you believe in a static or true version of history are the same folks that designed the violent conquest of the americas.

with this work, and in all my work, i subvert ideologies of control, dichotomy and anthropocentrism to traverse into a space of vulnerability, liquidity and interconnectedness.