Inspired by Tim Ingold’s (2007) taxonomy of lines: threads, traces, cuts, cracks, creases, and imaginary lines, this multi-year project explores materiality of lines in my own life, as I move across territorial lines.
This project began in 2023 and is currently ongoing.
As I’m preparing to relocate from my home to a different province, I am wondering about the ephemeral nature of memories…
What images am I holding on to when I’m remembering? Do memories loom larger in my mind than their ‘sources’? If memories are mind’s echoes of the material artifacts comprising my life, how does their composition change as they become memories?
Artifact: phone drawings over found lines of branches
Artifact: a drawing that attempts to breath
Artifact: backyard installation – lines created with white tape echoing lines of branches of shrubs
Traveling with lines
Artifact: a series of temporary installations incorporating the cut out line drawings of branches and found elements
temporalities ~ time pieces sold by Rolex and removed from the window display for the night + a sheet of paper from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “endless supply” of paper + lines drawings to be removed
temporalities in the play of shadows, cut-out lines & wind, a body bored
Artifact: temporalities in the urban landscape
Artifacts: Lines in the play of shadow and the movement of clouds
Alien alpabet
The lines project found its unexpected continuation in following the found drawing lines of tar on the roads of Sunshine Coast, BC, home to the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, shíshálh, Tla’amin, Klahoose, and Homalco Nations.
Light lines
I wake up on the traditional and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Having spent my winter in this space, I have learned, the hard way, of the importance of sunshine and vitamin D (or rather, the lack of thereof and effects on health). Through catching the lines of sunshine on the walls of my apartment, I am trying to honour the shifting of time, including my own aging…
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