Patience and Balance
Patience and Balance explores womanhood and aging as a woman. While at an artist residency in Mexico City, I had a birthday that left me feeling paralyzed emotionally and creatively. Looking for inspiration, I wandered the market in the local suburb where I was staying, and purchased items that I felt a connection to. I brought them back to my studio and started to photograph them. I realized I was creating a version of a self portrait, a personal memento mori. The process of making these self portraits about aging and death made me feel alive, and I even found humour in them. Through a mourning and celebration of my past self I found a way to heal my present self.
“Garden Party”, Super8 film transferred to 4K Video, 1:12, 2020
"Self Portrait with Shrimp", digital print, 4x6in, 2019
"Self Portrait as Mango", digital print, 4x6in, 2019
"Self Portrait with Snail", digital print, 4x6in, 2019
"Self Portrait as Squash Flowers", digital print, 4x6in, 2019
"Self Portrait with Chili", digital print, 4x6in, 2019
"Self Portrait as Lemon", digital print, 4x6in, 2019
"Self Portrait as Shrimp", digital print, 4x6in, 2019
Patience and Balance was made with the support and assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts.