(45.544728, -73.632496)
2017

Handwoven cotton, maple, sound

In (45.544728, -73.632496) I translate time series data for the sunrise and sunset times in the city of Montreal between June 30th 2017 and April 30th 2018 into weaving and sound. Handwoven using a double-cloth pick-up technique, the field of light-colored thread suggests the totality of sunlight for the given time-frame and the dark is the sum of non-sun. The accompanying sound piece translates the same data set into a tonal sound work. The tones of sunrise and sunset times are played simultaneously, creating an oscillating scale that shifts slowly throughout the duration of the work.

(45.544728, -73.632496) and
The only thing I think I know for sure
2017

Installation view from Ignition 14 at Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen

Photos courtesy of Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen

The only thing I think I know for sure
2017

Colored pencil and ink on graph paper in walnut frames

The only thing I think I know for sure tracks the sunrise and sunset times in four places I've called home: Bloomington, MN, Chicago IL, Brooklyn NY, and currently Montreal QC. Through these drawings, I attempted to locate myself by comparing a seemingly constant factor: the rise and fall of the sun. In an uncertain political climate worldwide, this work is also a desperate and futile attempt to find a stable condition as a source for hope. This investigation has opened up broader questions for me about place, home, affect, imagined futures, systems of time, and patterns of movement on a personal and global scale.