During my residency at Hammer + Sky on Brier Island, Nova Scotia, I created a series of three-dimensional mixed-media assemblages centered around the house motif. Each piece uses plywood structures painted in bold, modern colours as a architectural framework to present found objects collected from the island’s shoreline – rocks, shells, sticks, seaweed, and rope fragments gathered at low tide. By enclosing these natural and human-made materials within a controlled geometric house shape, I created focused viewing portals to highlight the organic textures and forms of the objects..
This work reflects the intersection of human habitation and our surrounding environment, capturing fragments of the island’s coastal community in each standalone sculpture. Through this dialogue between materials, I seek to explore how place is made visible and contained, and how seemingly ordinary fragments can carry meaning as physical records of a specific landscape and moment in time.
July 2025
