Diaspora

These works confront the dissonance at the heart of Canadian identity -- no celebration of people, nature or innovation is complete without deep engagement with our failures. Created using broken glass over bold black-and-white forms, the pieces evoke both wound and window. Textured like beadwork, scar tissue or water droplets, they invite exploration of what it means to belong to a place rich in ancient wisdom and beauty, yet still in need of healing.
 
Made for the next generation of Canadians -- my children and others -- these pieces are an act of hope. They reflect a vision of Canada that acknowledges the past while illuminating a future built from truth, beauty and repair.
 
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Pairs of streams disperse from a pressurized centre, calling forth the uncontainable grief and power of communities reclaiming voice. Created in response to the confirmation of mass children’s graves at residential school sites, this piece honours the resilience of Indigenous people whose grief and goodness, like water, resurface, reclaim and nourish the land. May it ever be so.
 
 
$215 from the sale of this piece will benefit the National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation.