Artist Statement: I am an Ottawa-based multidisciplinary artist examining the notion of bodily memory and the fragility of nostalgia. Lately I’ve been interested in contextualizing this role of memory production in the collective psyche, particularly when it comes to gendered histories and sensory perception, drawing from feminist psychoanalysis and re-imagined Symbolist motifs for inspiration. In my pictures, the environment is alive, landscapes are antagonistic, and scent takes on form to speak. Natural forms reinforce presence within absence, as nature personified; my work is both an ode to the unwilling witness and the power of memory.