Bare Children Virgin
Bare Children Virgin Exhibition
Concordia Masters Open Doors
2014
I’ve done a fair amount of work in stain glass because I love the religious connotation that is has. The themes in my work often coalesce around a discussion of current religious space, and the desire to create a new one, which I feel is indicative of an upcoming generation.
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Growing up in a non-inclusive and often oppressive traditional religious environment, I have come to see a new wave of individuals arise who are focused on the universal truths of spirituality, rather than practicing established religion.
My practice is therefore interested in experimenting with taking established ritual and religion and creating new spiritual spaces. Practicing as somewhat of a religious poacher, I take ideas and concepts from various worldwide religious spaces and make something that is unique to a new generation.
Currently I am interested in ideas of the human being as deity, exploring what happens when I put myself and others into the worshiping space often reserved for gods. I am also interested in the use and appropriation of traditional religious materials to make new commentary and objects.
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The most recent work experiments with moving machinery and light, is attempting to address the idea that spirituality is not fixed, and its practice is ever changing.
The gears and the rotating imagery talk about the continued motion of ideas as they are seen as truth and lie. The light that's projected through them not only gives an etherial quality to the imagery, but also allows for the viewer to be implicated in changing what images are present. As well the shifting and changing of these pieces relates to the tenuousness of spiritual space, as the individual works at understanding the practice of incorporating something greater than ourselves into the body.
