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in the Summer of 2023 i moved into a shed in the backyard of my sisters boyfriends place in Port Alberni BC.
I lived in the shed with my cat Ipod for 8 months. My studio was underneath the shed, accessible through the alleyway.
I worked at the local Salvation army and then went home and painted. I slept in the bushes with ipod a lot. I tattooed my legs for hours. I walked down to the docks or sat on the cliff side smoking a joint and listening to music. I would lay on the top of a retired train car and drink pbr's until the crazy chick in the pick up told me to leave.
I went to port alberni to get away from vancouver. To reconnect with my sister, spend time with my niece and help out with some landscaping. Mostly to be alone and sort of unreachable. I miss the wind and the fog, i miss the petty locals and the silence.
8 months was a perfect amount of time in Port. I had to leave very suddenly.
Ipod and I moved up island to Campbell River and lived in my brothers guest room. He got me a job as a labourer. I set up my studio in his garage. I was working on a series for a solo show in Vancouver at the time. I went to the beach a lot. I loved working on the same jobsite as both my brothers. I stayed for three months till I could afford to move back to Vancouver.
The following is Photos, media and, work I made/consumed from my 8 months living in Port Alberni and then the following three months in Campbell River.
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Saint Dymphna (2023)
Acrylic on found poster paper
20" x 30"
Dymphna is the patron saint of mental illness.
Beheaded by her father at 15 years old.
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This is the process of my piece
Poltergeist In The Trap 2023
The Plywood was kept inside the garage i had turned into my studio. I was really captivated by its colour. I had a dozen or sheets printed of some photos I had taken in the last year. Photos of scenery, friends, reference material for other work. I began cutting them up and simply screwing them onto the plywood. Unaware of where the piece would develop.
As I continued this process, I eventually decided on the shape of an angel.
Angels appear regularly in my work. I think it's something about the vagueness of an angel. The idea of some form of protection or something greater is made physical. Something about the symmetry of an angel, the beauty and simplicity. You need very little information to communicate the presence of an angel.
An angel also worked perfectly for me as I was exploring the theme of damage, celebrating damage and relating to it. To me angels communicate something positive, protection, love, safety, guidance. It found it interesting to actively damage material in order to create the shape of something that could infer the opposite.
I carefully selected, printed, cut out each of these pictures. Now i'm taking them and permanently damaging them by forcing a metal screw through their surface, adhering it to a piece of wood. Physical use over digital use.. physicalling editing..digitally editing.
The name is a reference to a rapper I started listening to at the time. Something I often do with my work. I like cataloging my music interests with my work as i find them inseparable within my practice and process.
I finished the piece with a 2 X 4 i woodburned imagery from Texas Chainsaw massacre (1974)
The addition of the 2 x 4 was to further illustrate the idea of boarded up, abandoned, inaccessible place.
