Category: Influences
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Love Songs – Past & Present
This past year or so, text has started showing up in my work again. During my undergrad, I worked with text in some of my paintings and it was not perhaps the most successful use of text, looking back. I kind of left it out of my practice for a long time, along with installation,…
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The Lady and The Unicorn
Every once in a while, I work on something new and think that I have this great new idea, only to realize that I’ve actually visited the same imagery or theme before. I don’t think this is a bad thing though. It’s pretty interesting actually, looking back at why I first chose that image/theme to…
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Beware of Wolves
There has been a recurring motif in my work this year, and I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts on this: The Wolf. It was wholly unintentional, but the wolf has been popping up in my work all year long. It first started at the beginning of the year, when I made my…
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A Skewed Point of View
I was going through some old photographs for the Domogeneous Q&A interview, and I found these photos that I took when I was eight or nine. It was a fashion shoot that I did with my younger sister and my little cousin. I remember they got all dressed up in their fashion outfits (you gotta…
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The Shepherd & The Nymph
A lot of people assume that I went to Emily Carr when I say I studied art in Vancouver. I actually chose to go to the University of British Columbia because I was thinking of doing a double major in English Literature and Fine Art. It was only because I went away on exchange to…