Forage (2023)
A window installation in spring of 2023 for Art After Dark in Kingston. Mixed media, although the figure is primarily paper mâché, Fosshape, lights, and a pair of old puppet hands from a bunch my father found hanging in a junk shop in Toronto in the 1970s. Poet Kevin Spenst explains this piece better than I ever could.
Arno and Maree (2020)
Arno & Maree: I Like to Be, is a window installation that I built for Minotaur in Kingston during the early days of the pandemic. My original idea had been a bit bleak, featuring anthropomorphized covid viruses and plague doctors. I can’t remember where the idea of a Parisian octopus with his muse came from, but it delighted me, and in the summer of 2020, we all needed some levity.
Gloria (2021)
A woman needs a man like….. This multimedia installation was made for the Minotaur window for Art After Dark 2021.
Owls at L&A (2023)
I’ve been working with the Museum of Lennox & Addington on various projects for five years, and it’s always a wonderful experiencel. I love interpreting nature into art installations. This spring, I installed a parliament of owls in their entrance.
Micro Macro (2021)
Micro-Macro was installed at Central School as part of the art walking tour for the Skeleton Park Arts Festival. The installation focusedd on the less popular and understood categories that make up our natural environment. Instead of dealing with more familiar groups of local organisms, this exhibit focused on non-flowering plants and animals that are so small that they are often overlooked and organisms that are neither plants nor animals (fungi). In playing with scale, I hoped to make the inconspicuous conspicuous.
Eating Animals (2017 & 2019)
Eating Animals is a darkly humorous puppet installation that playfully explores the idea of what - and who - we consume. The installation was originally produced for Xperimental Puppetry Theatre at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. In that incarnation, the story was told in two tableaus. Later, in 2019, the installation was at the Woodstock Gallery in Woodstock, Ontario. The story of Eating Animals unfolds through a series of photographs and a single tableau of a sinister dinner party. Eating Animals was created by The Enormous Elsewhere, a puppet construction and performance company which was based in Niagara. The puppet bodies and costumes were created by Alexa Fraser, and the the puppet heads, hands, feet, and wings were created by Clelia Scala. Alexander Scala built the tables and chairs
The Forest (2018)
In the summer of 2018, I was the Maker-in-Residence at the Burlington Public Library. My project was to build a woodland made from recycled books and the materials and equipment available to me in the library’s maker space. Library patrons were encouraged to work with me on the project once a week. Many people helped me twist wire and paint fabric.