Open air photography
on most Wednesdays from 10am -12 pm, City of Victoria Artist in Residence Kemi Craig and I can be found at the Photodynamic Garden at Wark Street Commons located on unceded Lkwungen territory. We’re garden…
Photodynamic gardening project
It’s happening! Over the past while I’ve been working with my friend Kemi Craig, the City of Victoria Artist-in-Residence to seed a new photodynamic garden situated within a network of community gardens, at Wark Street…
social practice and somatic photography
I’ve been invited into the Brock University community to work with photodynamic gardening. In September 2023, I’ll be in St. Catharines for a hands-on workshop in plant-based photography. As part of the Walker Cultural Leader Series,…
Photodynamic Gardening Workshop
I’ve been invited to present a Photodynamic Gardening Workshop in June in the Hudson Valley, New York, at Bard College Farm and Studio Kipp in Rhinebeck. This two-day workshop will experiment with building community gardens…
Colour practice: Gorse
Gorse (Ulex europaeus) is a spiny evergreen shrub. It is considered a threat to forest ecosystems where I live, and arrived as part of the colonial project. Like its lookalike, broom (Cytisus scoparius), it was…
camellia
camellia pour with full moon extracted stinging nettle and 2020 sunflower on arches hot pressed paper 2021
Mapping Meaning Journal Issue 3
The new issue of Mapping Meaning Journal has dropped! I’m delighted to have guest co-edited the volume with Nat Castañeda and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky. We first met as part of the Mapping Meaning initiative and…
At the Terminus: Ethnographic Terminalia 2019
This year’s constellation of events will take place between November 19-24, alongside the 2019 American Anthropology Meetings at The Hangar at the Centre for Digital Media, at the heart of East Vancouver’s growing arts district….
A continuous slow movement (drift camera)
Through the process of erasure, dispossession and construction that industrial forestry relies upon, forests are created as trees, logs and timber, harvested, moved into water, and transported to sort yards for processing.
Photodynamic gardening
Photodynamic Gardening. Making images with plants. Experimental ethnography. Leaves of stinging nettle, mashed up rose and bee balm petals, elderberry fruit.