2024 - CATCHING LIGHT
Once, a girl lived in a little house in the forest behind a mountain. She spent her days playing in the woods, climbing trees and playing pretend. This little girl fell in love with the sunlight for its golden comfort; as the last rays disappeared each night, she pondered how to capture it and keep its warmth forever.
She asked the moon, and the moon smiled back but offered no solution. She asked the birds that sang longingly each dusk and dawn. She asked the soft land that unfolded its greenery each dewy morning, but there was no clear answer. She curled up close to the fire in the cold night and whispered, “How do you catch the light?”
The fire crackled warmly, “With shadows, my dear, with shadows.” The girl watched as the shadows danced along the room’s walls, against her skin and in her heart, as she finally understood.
SECRET KEEPER
120 x 60 cm
Secrets are woven with the same
delicate nature as lace.
Handed down from mother to daughter
like precious garments.
Each fold of this skirt holds a memory,
a longing embrace
If I ever have a daughter
I will pass on this heritage of fabric.
For her to embroider
A new narrative
So one day we may all be set free.
This is a portrait of my childhood best friend dressed in my mother's wedding skirt, dancing in the woods where we ran wild as girls.
SMALL SACRIFICE
40 x 80 cm
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it,
does it make a sound?
It echoes with the same resonance as a brave heart breaking.
lAYING WITH WOLVES
80 x 120 cm
As a girl, I used to have a recurring dream that wolves would surround my house, and I could not escape. A pack lived on the mountain behind us; I would often hear them howl into the endless nights of the Canadian winter. The terrifying sounds chilled deeper than the wind or snow.
Now, the sounds fills me with joy and a sense of wildness. When I feel lonely living far away, I think of those wolves, throw my head back and smile, remembering home.
THE LAND WHISPERS YOUR NAME WHILE YOU SLEEP
80 x 120 cm
There is a secret love language between the sunlight and the ground
When the warmth reaches the cold, dark earth,
it explodes with life
Complicated symbiotic relationships are unfolding and growing all around us
If you are very quiet,
you can hear them communicating
When I was a girl,
the land used to call my name
This memory is embedded as sharply in mind
as the scars from summer black berry scratches are etched into my skin
I will never forget
I am simply a small piece of that place
FINDING THE LIGHT - LIKE A MOTH TO A FLAME
120 X 60 cm
There is a quiet power
Moving with grace through the valley
The unseen world is a dark undertow
Softly tugging at the hem of your coat
Whispering “Slow Down”
Maybe we are just like the forest
The perfect balance
Decomposition and growth
Fazes interlocked
In a sequential pattern
Eternally
FEMINITY IS A STATE OF MIND
69 x 80 cm
Wake up every day
so unapologetically yourself
The world has no choice
but to surrender to
your beauty
your desire
your radiance
your grace
Carve a space out like water
Smoothing over even the sharpest stones
FIND ME UNDER THE LUNAR RAINBOW
60 x 42 cm
While we were chasing stars
She caught the moon
Wielding it’s power
To heal the world around us
ALL MY LOVE SENT ON A CLOUD
TO THE MOON
42 x 60 cm
Sometimes we love something out of our grasp
Growing is in the reaching
Crumbling is a part of the process
To the moon and back
Forever
FORWARD MOTION
120 x 80 cm
Can we be in two places
at the same time?
An old version and a new
tied together
like the invisible string which binds me
to you
to that place
it runs through me like the creek
my blood
kin
Even across the ocean
it pulls me in
close to your magic
We must step forward
to take a new form
GROWING PAINS
69 x 80 cm
There is sanctity in submission,
knowing I am only as tall
as I once was small
only as brave
as I have been afraid
If pain is my greatest teacher
then I choose love as my weapon
Expanding this human form
to the ends of the earth
SHADOW DANCING
90 x 120 cm
How do you catch the light?
“With shadows my dear,
with shadows.”
Late at night
With both arms in the air
Dancing
Between the light and dark
With grace