About Her - 2006

She has many stories, memories, secrets, dreams.

Her life has been exploited, celebrated, dictated, ignored.

Overworked, under paid, good days, boughts of depression.

These are her battles.

Wife, Mother, Daughter, Friend. 

These are her roles.

Through words and collage I encourage you to get to know Her.

Every Woman's Story - 2007

Every Woman’s Story is an artistic endeavor through 5 art panels to celebrate the female heroines of our times who as Mothers, Nurses, Teachers, Artists, Poets, and Friends, live full and rewarding lives giving and nurturing and mending the souls they touch. 

But most importantly, it offers visual inspiration to the patients of St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto, Ontario) Breast Centre and their families.

And so this project is many things. It is a thank you from us to those who moved on. It is a note of encouragement to those who have just started the journey of walking through this clinic door. It is a celebration of lives passed and lives to be lived.

A complete Journal for the project can reviewed at:

http://everywomansstory.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html .

Peace Cloth to Silence Contemporary War - 2008

I see global peace as a truce when all nations will be able to unite under one flag of pride without losing site of individual cultures, religious beliefs, personal philosophies, or their individual uniqueness. 

I present this work not as a Flag of Truce for one nation giving up their freedoms to another, a symbolic sign of defeat and despair, but a symbolic sign of a world truly united in sharing a mutual respect for all of humanity to exist and thrive.

This flag is comprised of 100 10” X 8” panels with the words May Peace Prevail on Earth in 100 languages representing 170 nations.

The Found Identies Project - Ongoing

An inheritance of over 100 photographic negatives, have been stirring my imagination for some time. No one knows who the people in these pictures are, but they represent life in rural Ontario, circa 1920 to 1930. 

I don’t think I will be able find out who these people in the photographs are for sure, but they have a story to tell and I have decided to tell it for them.

Each person in the pictures is being given a name and a purpose for being, or wishing, or a guesstimate at what they might be thinking. Essentially, I am becoming the family Matriarch; sharing my imaginary memories of people. 

Their stories will be part factual, but mostly fictional and the People’s new identities will be supported visually with artwork that will incorporate the collage of fibre, textiles, surface design, paint, beads, found objects, etc…, creating a conceptual extension of the written words.