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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
What makes a tree, a tree? This series of eight short videos explores this question by focusing on the same urban tree, a large Black Willow situated between a busy pedestrian walkway and a construction site. With deeply grooved bark and a twisted trunk, it bears scars from lost branches, supports parasitic plants and has holes… ⊕
2016, 04:42 minutes, colour
tapecode 430.03
An experimental music video in honour of the Appin Massacre (1816), where people of the Dharawal nation were chased off the cliffs for settler expansion of their country. Using Google Earth and Google Streetview images, computer-generated jump-cut splicing created raw footage virtually filmed to depict a journey from… ⊕
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… ⊕