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Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
Experimental and poetic, The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story investigates my experience of the Canadian Baby Adoption Mandate Era (1945-1985) when over 600,000 newborns were placed through closed adoption to new families. Most “birth mothers” were aged 15 to 19, and many lived in Canadian… ⊕
A Super 8mm film installation. Burn Pile climaxes a decade-long purge of belongings, an outcome of extensive healing work around my mood disorders and gender nonconformity. After much selling and donating and passing along, I was left with a handful of precious objects that no longer served me or the world. The six burns… ⊕
Two children, or perhaps elders, a brother and a sister, have built a home on an island beyond time itself. Their days consist of fishing, foraging, making art and finding new medicines, though imminent climate collapse and the lives they’ve left behind weigh heavily on them both. Through conflict and collaboration, they… ⊕
Heaven is a two-layered work consisting of downloaded mp4 clips. The first layer is all perfect circles found up in the skies. The second layer hosts images and bodies very much of the earth. So is there a heaven?
2026, 07:10 minutes, colour
tapecode 1077.05
Three celestial beings contemplate a post-human Earth where newly hybridized lifeforms have evolved out of the debris of the Anthropocene. Combining references to Catholic liturgical art and the iconography of the Tarot, this film blends cosmology with an urgent message of ecology. The Music of the Spheres is a seven-minute… ⊕