Interactive mixed media installation, Etobicoke, Sense Lab, 2019
Made for AdventurersMy installation piece at the 2019 Toronto Biennale "art in access", partnered with Workman Arts and Humber college, was an all access concept that challenged the five senses. Audiences participated and made identification in the interactive stations: 1) A singing bowl, "om" playing from speaker. 2) Enclosed space, black curtain, an LED strip flashing on two wax paintings and CDs. 3) A moving ball of soft yarn, sticky leaves, and textured cardboard. 4) arranged jars of scented liquids. 5) water and food.
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Collaborating with a group of Humber college artists for the 2019 Big Draw event at Colborne Lodge, we began with the idea of how the patients at John Howard’s mental institute must have felt. It was a big deal for the establishment to have windows for the time. The patients were mistreated and not thought of as needed basic human rights, such as windows
We added different elements into the windows panes such as drawn photos of flowers and nature to present the illusion of the outside world. |
This installation focuses on our cognitive distortions which are influenced by anxiety and depression. Done in a "tarot card" style the installation encourages you to walk through a space accompanied by deep sea noises, LED lights and large hanging works.
Materials: watercolour paper, water colour paint, gold leaf, photo paper, LED lights, speaker |
There's a technique to capturing true expressions with a camera. Add colour, light and texture for greater definition, depth, and substance. Accentuated rose-coloured tones, drawn augmentations come alive with light, motion, and the circling question, “there comes a point when you have to ask yourself, when is it good enough?” |