I Feel I Know You, Too 2025

I Feel I Know You, Too 2025

On the third day of my five week artist residency at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, my father passed away. I was over four thousand kilometres away from him and yet I felt him leave. My world changed in an instant and the efforts to continue making artwork toward a scheduled exhibition became deeply challenged.

Thinking about the fragility of life and the mystery of consciousness, about earth, soil and natural growth, this piece became a sister piece to an embroidered textile installation from 2023. I felt the need to ground myself while also portraying the vulnerability of life and loss and the difficulties of communicating in words. Sometimes we sense beyond language, as I believe we do with nature.

The braille dots are made from soil and clay dug with my hands from the area near the barn studio, molded on reclaimed paper plates then poured over with resin after being sundried. The cursive text, a call and response to ‘I feel I know you’, is formed from wild grass.

Go to I Feel I Know You, 2023 to see the sister installation.