The building of home and the traces of what came before underpin my artistic practice. While meditating on themes of transparency, settlement, dwelling and belonging.

My artwork examines the complexities of land that has been settled and unsettled. Highlighting the history of places that were homesteaded by my ancestors. 

Currently my work is looking at “Lot 15”, land that was dispossessed from a Japanese family who farmed transparent apple trees. This same plot of land in Maple Ridge, BC was then sold to my grandmother and stewarded for over 50 years. This land holds the tension of displacement and my family carries the burden of colonial settlement.

Land is a palimpsest. Within it lies hidden marks and layers of meaning and memory. What if they could rise to the surface and provide a transparent history, complete and unvarnished. The psychogeography of a place holds the invisible connection between people and place.