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Unlearning the Piano
With humour, the artist demonstrates five exercises for breaking old piano-playing habits.
The Speed of Light
A small circle of sunlight passes in real time across my hand. This work is presented in a digital frame. 2009
Turn and Return, Faire et refaire, 2016
Exhibition with Sarah Bertrand-Hamel, Tsuguo Yanai and Karen Trask at the Prince Takamado Gallery, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan. November 27th 2015 – opening reception and the exhibition closed on January 28th 2016. All of the works are either made of paper or use paper as a support. The exhibition, Turn and Return highlights the surprising versatile and enduring, potential of paper to make and to reflect the world. Bertrand-Hamel proposes a series of water colours on paper and drawings on fragments of handmade paper that she sews together to create large murals. Trask presents a series of weavings and installations […]
Turn & Return, Faire et refaire, Exhibition/Exposition : Tokyo
The exhibition, Turn and Return, Faire et refaire, was held at the Prince Takamado Gallery in the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo from November 27th 2015 to January 28th 2016. The work went up smoothly and quickly with the help of the crew from Tokyo Studio. Here are a few images of the exhibition being installed. For a more comprehensive look at the work in the show, please consult the exhibitions page.
Mmmmm
Imagining the letter M. Part of the series, 26 Characters
Rien brûle
26 Characters # 1
26 Characters #1 marks the beginnings of a new series of short animations highlighting the presence and potential of paper to interact with words and writing. I imagine language as a living entity, an insect-like parasite. My work with papermaking has led me to see paper as a metaphor for absence and a host for words.
Sweet Nothings, Petits riens
This work is part of my ongoing look at the passage of time. Sweet Nothings / Petits riens, is an installation of three videos on three, 7-inch digital frames set on a shelf. Words in both French and English take a physical form and transform in a variety of materials such as thread, string and bits of wire. The idea and relevance of the idea of nothingness as a creative force in the making and unmaking of the world in both art and science preoccupies my artmaking. The absence of women in written history is a theme I also continue to […]
A Room in Paris or, L’histoire de lumière
This work is also exhibited as a video projection- entitled, L’histoire de lumière. I lived in Paris beside a busy road and the Seine River. Every night, as the tourist-filled boats travelled up and down the river, their bright lights shone up into my apartment. Watching the shadow of my own body as I stood in front of the open window and the leaves and branches of the trees outside move through my room, I began to feel as if I was living inside a camera obscura. Over a period of six months, I documented a variety of the shadows, […]