A collaborative performance with Laura Puska, Andrei Gravelle, Christopher McKinnon and Joel Thompson.
 

Beast are performative wearable living dioramas using various media and techniques to embody the environmental crisis, and expose parallels to society's treatment of women to inspire dialogue for change. At the time I  wrote,     "..to anthropomorphize the environmental crisis.." prior to the term Anthropocene would be coined.

Through my interpretation of Nordic mythologies and landscape, I aim to create

work that defines an intersection between emotions and our perception of the

environment. I utilize glass as a primary medium because of it's ability to convey

flow, water/ice, movement, light and organic forms, is unrivalled. Quite often

people viewing my work believe the illusion; thinking I have sculpted ice, or

captured living organisms somehow within the glass.

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If we can say that the world of science is synonymous with truth and the world of

art with that of fiction, I want to tread a middle ground that is unusual and

seemingly beyond belief, yet also familiar.

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A cautionary tale for the future, that feels as if it is deeply rooted in the past.

 

The costumes in BEAST utilize glass as their primary component. From cast crystal shoes, jawbones, heart-harness, finger guards and skulls. Fused glass 'corsets', plankton-like forms, antlers, and objects to Flame-worked hard and soft glass ephemera.

Wool head-dress structures were formed, silk was hand painted and panniers were constructed.

Metal such as; pewter, sterling silver, and bronze were hand fabricated and cast into various accessories. 

Fish and reindeer leather brought back from Iceland were incorporated into the glass shoes, 

and other wearable objects.

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Winner of the Glass Art Society Canada New Voices Award - Glass project exploration Ontario Arts Council

2013