BODY FOSSILS
Mixed media – c-prints, watercolour pigment, ink, carving. memory on another memory on another I’ve been returning to a set of analogue colour photographs from the 1990s. I held onto them, moved them from place…
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Becoming anarchival
Becoming Anarchival This fall, Kate Hennessy and I are presenting our collaborative work at 881 Gallery in Vancouver. The work emerges from fieldwork around a defunded paleontology research centre in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. We…
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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…
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Infinite emulsion
Vegetal colour, cabbage, rose, nettle, sopped up, mopped up, dried on paper. A solar printed intuitive contact print with diverted compost and other waste.
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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.
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Photodynamic gardening
Photodynamic Gardening. Making images with plants. Experimental ethnography. Leaves of stinging nettle, mashed up rose and bee balm petals, elderberry fruit.
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Studies for Making and Unmaking
A 15 minute film loop that brings together digital and analogue archives into projections and performances. Making and unmaking encounters, curved by gusting winds, the squeak of technological breakdown, and the distortion of projections on paper.
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Anarchival materiality
Anarchival materiality within archives is an ongoing research-creation project that documents the generative force of entropy in archives. The force of molecular transformation, violence, displacement, and other human and non-human agencies render archival materials as fugitives, both eluding and driving preservation.
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Fugitives in the Archive
Kate Hennessy and my exhibition Fugitives in the Archive at the Royal British Columbia Museum’s Pocket Gallery and Lightbox Gallery opened on Nov. 2 2018 and ran until January 1, 2019.
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Linnet Lake
A line in process by Jenaya Webb, an open water swimmer, anthropologist, and librarian, who I work with in parks and protected areas. This is experimental feminist praxis, fieldwork that prioritizes lake swimming as a way to explore the ‘thick description’ of embodied gestures, lines, abstraction in film and photography, the social life of rumours, and ‘swimmer’s itch’.
