An Act of Unfolding combines painting, sculpture, construction, and repurposed textiles with found and shared objects. In the scattered fragments of a lived and loved place, the space of a home melds into that of a shrine in which items, belongings and moments are encased with honour, as icons and sacred symbols of self.

Within the fluidity of time and the unreliability of recollection, memory and meaning become a coalescence of moments, objects, and stories. The preservation of meaning is marked by the transference of sacred devotion towards the mundane and ordinary. Objects become markers and icons of the stories that compile the framework of personal being.

Decorated and filled with pre-loved belongings that transcend a clear placement in time, An Act of Unfolding exists as an amalgamation of moments and memories. In the echo of a home, a sense of the sacred arises from the remnants of lives lived.

I am a multidisciplinary artist living and working on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. My work combines painting, textiles, and sculpture with found and shared objects and materials in pursuit of an understanding of memory, longing, and mourning. Blending a tangible and physical reality with the distortions of the uncanny, remembrance and the placement of personal meaning are explored in dream-like compositions.

Within the fluidity of time and the unreliability of recollection, memory and meaning become a coalescence of moments, objects, and stories. The preservation of meaning is marked by the transference of devotion towards the mundane and ordinary. Objects become markers and icons of the stories that compile the framework of personal being. Materials as symbols of the people, places, and things that are or once were.

In the ambiguity of recollection, thoughts, feelings, and the remnants of the individual become scattered. Through an amalgamation of materials, compositions are rendered and created as if from dreams, creating simultaneous feelings of discomfort and familiarity in the unity of the known and unknown. In the preservation of self and the placement of meaning, belongings, places, and things become items of honour. In what is loved and what is forgotten, a sense of the sacred is found in the secular.