2020
Mixed media: recycled textiles, marigold and madder dye, resin, silicone, driftwood, rattan.

This piece is loosely based upon the paiche (arapaima) fish of the Amazon, which the artist first encountered on residency in Peru in 2015. She re-imagines the paiche, which she fondly dubs “the river dragon”, in the style of the sea monsters that medieval cartographers drew on their maps, once signifying the fear and wonder of the unknown. The creature is hand-made of rattan, recycled household textiles, silicone, resin, and driftwood from Nova Scotia, mixing the familiar with the faraway.

Photographed at the Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature, Victoria, BC, as part of the exhibition Castaways, curated by Vivienne Challandes.

2020
Mixed media: recycled textiles, marigold and madder dye, resin, silicone, driftwood, rattan.

Alternate view.

Photographed at the Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature, Victoria, BC, as part of the exhibition Castaways, curated by Vivienne Challandes.

2020
Mixed media: recycled textiles, marigold and madder dye, resin, silicone, driftwood, rattan.

Alternate view.

Photographed at the Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature, Victoria, BC, as part of the exhibition Castaways, curated by Vivienne Challandes.

2020
Mixed media: recycled textiles, marigold and madder dye, resin, silicone, driftwood, rattan.

Photographed at the Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature, Victoria, BC, as part of the exhibition Castaways, curated by Vivienne Challandes.