The opening images in this section show a recent project titled: Activity for the creation of a relational object (find the place where your heart is bursting with love for every living being in the world). This installation emerged from instructions that I wrote for a participatory activity—involving the cutting and linking of multiple pieces of board to form a complex constellation. The work draws from the Fluxus tradition of the event score. The instructions provide a starting point for an open-ended, hands-on interpretation that allows for countless iterations—making use of everyday material and resulting in a malleable sculptural form that can be scaled and adapted to countless environments. This project was exhibited at the SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL in July, 2025. Included in this section are gallery images as well as an iteration in which video is projected onto the installation.
Activity for the creation of a relational object (find the place where your heart is bursting with love for every living being in the world): Instructions
1. Cut a rectangle from a new or used board at a 1:1.618 ratio (or other ratio).
2. Cut a separate board in the same ratio—scaled down so its length equals the height of the first rectangle.
3. Cut a minimum of three more rectangles by repeating the same proportional reduction.
4. Cut two narrow openings in each board.
5. Link multiple boards through the openings.
6. Use string to fasten a bundle of multiple boards.
7. Use string to suspend from a ceiling.
8. Repeat steps 1 to 7 to form a constellation.
Additional projects in this section include Cycles. This work consists of a machined steel piece (used in the oil extraction industry in Alberta) and dirt. Drawing from the modernist tradition of the found object, this item was removed from the life cycle of industrial production and recontextualized as artwork. Exhibited at the SAIC Open Studio event, July 2024
The bottom imagery is Remembering and Forgetting. As part of this installation a narrow slit was cut into various panels—allowing light to be projected onto and through multiple surfaces. The footage presents, among other things, images of family, as well as meaningful geographical locations that are seemingly ordinary but of historical significance. The installation is made of six 20 × 20 inch fabric panels (mixed fibres and linen, including fragments of the artist’s clothing) dipped in liquified candle wax. The footage is digitized 16mm and digital video. An early version of this work was exhibited at the SAIC Open Studio event, July 2024.