Books & zines

Palimpsest III

Inkjet and staple bound artist book, 2023

Created for Doug Dumais’s project Palimpsest for Art in the Open 2023. Curated by Roxanne Fernandes.

This book is a collection of drawings created during Art in the Open 2023. Dumais’s original project took place on the shore of the Hillsbourough River in Charlottetown, PE.

“While on the shore, I worked in a makeshift artist studio, which consisted of a 6x6x6-feet PVC cube frame. This space contained the essentials of a photographer’s studio: a camera, tripod, laptop, printer, and notebook. The studio cube was meant to serve as a frame for the performance and referenced the small PVC squares used by scientists for shoreline monitoring. I edited and printed images on site in the studio, and wrote poems directly on the prints, which I handed out for free to visitors to the installation.”
- Doug Dumais

Invited to create my own cube studio, I decided to combine my audio and drawing practices in a way I had not explored before. I invited audience members to leave me objects in a drop box to research. I attached contact mics to a drawing table so that every time I made a mark on the page an audio signal was sent through a series of effects and played through a small Fender guitar amp. Throughout the night I would manipulate the effects based on what I was drawing and how many people were in the room. This book is a collection of most of those drawings made on that night.

All These Things that Move Between

Hand bound artist book and installation, digital print, book binding thread, 2021

“The hours between then and now
The time it takes to forget
An accumulation
A reduction
A layer between here and where you once were”

In 2020 I discovered that all my phones over the past decade had been automatically backing up my photos to my google account. I spent a lot of time combing through them that year. Among these images I found many that I didn’t remember taking or that I had clearly thought held some importance but I could not place my finger on why. I took these mysterious photos, wrote about them, printed them out, collaged them, painted on them, recreated them, and reconstructed them into a sequence that became this book. The book uses these old images in new ways to give them renewed meaning and purpose. Each image is layered over a solid colour pulled directly from a time lapse video of a sunset, creating a gradient  from day to midnight as you read.

From The Shed

Silkscreen on rag paper, 2017

This book explores a place of nostalgia for me as a child. I grew up on a farm run by my father, his brother until his passing in 2004 and one other employee until the farm’s closure in 2012. When the farm closed the house where these people stayed was left in place for years. Eventually the house moved but all of the sheds remained. I would spend a lot of time here reading, drawing, writing, and playing as a teenager. While creating this book I went back to these sheds and photographed interesting objects I found in them. These were then printed in this book along with a drawing of the shed that I found them in. The cover is an up close, posterized photograph of the siding of one of the buildings. The text is pulled from Sinead O'connor’s cover of Nothing Compares 2 U. As of 2019 these sheds have fully collapsed.

For What You Were

Installation, zines, charcoal on bond paper, charcoal sticks, charcoal powder, found box, found alter, 2016

A piece created for a members project at Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre. This piece expands a zine of the same title into an installation, creating a small alter with copies of the zine, a small box filled with charcoal powder and the remains of the charcoal sticks used to create the black rectangular sheet behind the altar. This sheet was created by taping together multiple sheets of 8.5” x 11” printer paper coated in charcoal. The sheet was made to be the size of a doorway or coffin and the piece an homage to a friend we lost in May of that year.

Zines 2015-17

A collection of small zines and short comics created between the years 2015 and 2017