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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
Single channel video, 2:12 minutes (loop) Southern Ontario has the greatest diversity of turtles in Canada, found in a variety of habitats including lakes, ponds, rivers, marshes, and bogs. All eight turtle species are designated as species at risk. How do we engage with the need for these species’ protection, and not… ⊕
The gesture of my teenage daughter and I washing our hands together enacts a desire for healing. In an effort to reconcile a changing, intimate relationship with my daughter, I reflected on how I unconsciously uphold oppressive structures of power, especially as a parent. How does power and intergenerational pain move through… ⊕
This is the choreography of a relationship, a choreography of distance and of coming together. Listening to each other’s bodies, mimicry, and following our intuition. The fabric is a manifestation of time, an experience of time folded in on itself. I see cloth as a woven reminder of my place in an expansive sense of time… ⊕
Revelation is a video work that oscillates between the gestures of concealing and revealing the Arabic word Iqra, the first word revealed to the Prophet Mohammed. I re-imagine this Quranic story and place my own hands as the subject to receive and bury the word. In our present day the words of the Quranic revelation however… ⊕
How do I reconcile being on stolen land with my mother’s experience? And my children’s experience of being of mixed ancestry? The chai is being poured out of the copper vessel into the bone china tea cup. The tea cup is inherited from my husband’s grandfather. The audio is the sound of a buffalo stampede that… ⊕