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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… ⊕
Inclination is an iteration of a work I made 20 years ago working with intimate gestures from the Islamic prayer. As my relationship to the land on which I reside has deepened, the gesture of sajdah (prostration) has become a form of territorial acknowledgment. I touch my head to the ground remembering my connection to the… ⊕
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… ⊕
Hearing that my mother had her eyes closed for the duration of her wedding ceremony has always struck me. I wanted to explore this experience of my mother as a way to honour her courage and inner resourcing. The trust and grounding in her own self that closing her eyes must have required is a form of resilience and saying yes… ⊕