I am NOT a writer - in the empirical sense. My language is visual and from that perspective the language I use holds varied meanings, sometimes literal when documentation is of the essence, but when I play, the language is solidly poetic. One of my favorite mediums for visual poetry is, Wetplate Collodion Photography. I make my images individually, hand-poured on the spot every time, with real silver and collodion exactly as they did 170 years ago. It is because of this hand-poured nature that the serendipity of time – location – season affects their influences directly upon each and every plate. DNA of the location and environment get trapped into the emulsion and are forever locked within the image.
I am also a first generation Canadian, the youngest child of three born to WW2 refugees – displaced persons finding refuge in a place called Canada. Growing up in Kitchener Ontario, then moving to the Yukon where my partner of 30yrs and I began our family, living in remote cabins and raising 3 beautiful children with few modern conveniences. My work as a result focuses on belonging and place, personal storytelling, travel, struggle and displacement, the outsider and what living in the space between historical past and contemporary present can mean.
