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: a drawing that attempts to breath

Artifact: backyard installation – lines created with white tape echoing lines of branches of shrubs

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

Alien alpabet

The lines project found its unexpected continuation in following the found drawing lines of tar on the roads across the Sunshine Coast, BC.

Light lines

I wake up in my new place, 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…