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Wanderings
2011-12
PERSONAL INTERVENTION/PERFORMANCE (VIDEO DOCUMENTATION)
Sometimes my work uses sites or found objects as tools to invite people into personal and relational narratives. Collecting other people’s personal items by inviting them to record them in the form of graphite rubbings has been an ongoing mode of research in my practice. The rubbings re-appear as part of objects and installations, or personal interventions which I perform. Wanderings is one of these, where I investigate my relationships with the people who are people dearest to me, yet farthest in proximity. A series of personal interventions occurring over the span of twelve months in 2011-2012, Wanderings involved my carrying a cumbersome Anchor/Cradle (2011) with me on daily errands. The prints on the fabric that is woven through Anchor/Cradle are copies of a collection of hundreds of graphite rubbings that my family and I created from our individual belongings. The rubbings originally occurred in one collective sketchbook which traveled from Montreal to Vancouver and then Hawaii to reach all four of my immediate family members. Some of the objects include: my mother’s rosaries, brother’s guitar strings and my dad’s moose-mate calling cassette. Maneuvering the cumbersome object through busy streets, into the subway system and through snow and rain, all while negotiating the heaviness of the object as well as the internal dialogue occurring, became a familiar action which, after some periods of sadness, I eventually grew very fond of.
Sometimes my work uses sites or found objects as tools to invite people into personal and relational narratives. Collecting other people’s personal items by inviting them to record them in the form of graphite rubbings has been an ongoing mode of research in my practice. The rubbings re-appear as part of objects and installations, or personal interventions which I perform. Wanderings is one of these, where I investigate my relationships with the people who are people dearest to me, yet farthest in proximity. A series of personal interventions occurring over the span of twelve months in 2011-2012, Wanderings involved my carrying a cumbersome Anchor/Cradle (2011) with me on daily errands. The prints on the fabric that is woven through Anchor/Cradle are copies of a collection of hundreds of graphite rubbings that my family and I created from our individual belongings. The rubbings originally occurred in one collective sketchbook which traveled from Montreal to Vancouver and then Hawaii to reach all four of my immediate family members. Some of the objects include: my mother’s rosaries, brother’s guitar strings and my dad’s moose-mate calling cassette. Maneuvering the cumbersome object through busy streets, into the subway system and through snow and rain, all while negotiating the heaviness of the object as well as the internal dialogue occurring, became a familiar action which, after some periods of sadness, I eventually grew very fond of.
