Sleight Objects is the exhibition essay for Erika Verhagen’s show Ha Ha Wall at Xpace Cultural Centre (Tkaronto/Toronto) .
Collaboration with Gabriel Soligo
Written for Tie It Off & Count Again’s catalogue HAVN, curated by Rowan Lynch.
2018.
a plague of robins is a compilation of three chapbooks, each featuring poetry on birds and women. The poems focus on a comparative study of Tippi Hedren’s character Melanie in The Birds and Sula in Toni Morrison’s novel Sula. The chapbooks are enclosed in a handwoven double weave sheath.
2018, New York Art Book Fair, New York City, NY.
Collaboration with Gabriel Soligo.
Materials: Paper is made out of envelopes, sea water from K’jipuktuk, and the inner Oslofjord. The text is printed by hand using carbon copy paper.
Water Logue was a long distance project created while Gabriel was in Oslo, Norway, and I was in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We combined our writings on the waterways surrounding each of us, finding similarities and researching/ imagining the histories of people and things travelling those watery paths.
2017.
