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sensory environments

I use installation to create sensory environments that speak of memory and transformation. These explore the particular, personal and living relationships within an Indigenous worldview, often focusing on Kanien’kehá:ka / Mohawk cosmography, in order to unsettle our perception of time, space and memory. Through the layering and accumulation of translucent materials and image, my installations and videos remain fragile and temporal constructions that underscore the nature of these relationships and our responsibilities or roles within them. My suspended installations in particular draw upon the principles inherent to wampum belts or kahion:ni: “river made by hand”. The threads continue above and below the assembled forms as a signifier of the relationship between the physical and metaphysical: earth and sky, while the individual forms on the threads reference the multi-faceted and active nature of our connections with each other and the worlds around us.”