This body of work grew from thoughts about the environmental changes and species loss I have witnessed during my lifetime. There is a nod to nostalgia in this series, but the comfort this sentiment could offer is denied, and replaced with solastalgia.
| Rattle the Teapot calls for an interruption and end to our colonial wordview and invites conscious, responsible awareness of our relationship to nature. Old dolls, printed botanical fabrics and fake eggs represent my youth and familial history, but points to the many layers in which nature and ourselves have been replaced or mirrored through our constructed realities and technologies. The distinction between the real, the non-real, and representation have broken down, yet what of the Earth and the living systems that all life depends on? | ||||||
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Treaty Four Territory, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Last updated October 2025
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