Still Alive Residency
Banff, Alberta
Still Alive Residency, 2016
The photographs produced at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, critique the relationships between the oil economy and consumer culture. Inspired by images of plastic gyre debris floating within the world’s oceans, these photographs of everyday novelty petroleum based products were composed so as to deconstruct the addictive nature of consumerism. The works generated are not images of the objects themselves, rather they are photographs of distorted reflections and in some instances multiple reflections experienced simultaneously. The fictitious spaces depicted within these images serve as an inquiry into the primal nature of consumption by exploring the realm of the metaphysical and its relationship to the real world of objects.
Special thank you to the Herb and Ivy Paris Endowment for the financial support in making the residency possible.
Omnia
While participating in a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2016 I created a large diorama of plastic artifacts that were used for a photography project. Inspired by simple curiosity, I randomly navigated a cell phone through the diorama and recorded the scenes and sounds of the reflective surfaces and plastic objects.
This experimental short film is a collection of selected scenes integrated with an electronically modified soundtrack.
Premiered at the 11th annual Photophobia festival in 2017 showcasing short-format contemporary media, film, video and moving image (co-organized by Hamilton Arts Inc. and The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON).
Left: Selected stills
Banff Residency