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S/núye Built My Time Machine | MFA Thesis Project

2024, SFU MFA Thesis Exhibition: Words Among Us, Audain Gallery, SFU Galleries, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Laser-etched woodblock prints, video projection with sound, traffic cones, wood, industrial stretch wrap, ambient light-rejecting fabric, LED lights, reflective paracord, and miscellaneous hardware.  

Photography by: Rachel Topham (1-4), Taryn Walker (5-6)

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S/núye Built My Time Machine is a body of work that investigates art-making as a strategy for both locating and creating sites of futurity through transformations of the everyday. With images and materials derived from urban landscape, this series of laser-etched woodblock prints and time-based sculpture reflects on the parts of our world that reveal glimmers of infinite potential futures. These are glimmers that manifest in often mundane and unexpected ways, whether that be traffic cones in fantastical formations or crows tussling with a bag of chips. These moments are reinvented as otherworldly images and objects that blur the lines between reality and fiction, traditional and contemporary, material and technology. Here time is imagined outside of colonial structures and vibrates in a tangle of past, present, and future. S/núye Built My Time Machine poses the questions: “What is possible?” “What is present?” and most importantly, “Are you ready to step into the portal?”

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Ursula's Infinite Chase Through The Fourth Dimension

2023, SFU MFA Spring Show, 611 Alexander Studios, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Laser-etched woodblock prints.

Photograph by: Tung Pang Lam

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Echoes From A Time Not Yet Here

2023, Echoes From A Time Not Yet Here, Curated By Chai Duncan, The View Gallery, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC.

Wax-preserved drawings, wall drawing installation, video artwork, soundscape, and mixed media sculpture with laser cut leaves.

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decompose this body.

2022, decompose this body., Society of Northern Alberta Printmakers (SNAP) Gallery, Edmonton, AB.

Wax-preserved drawings, video artwork, and soundscape.

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A Lesson In Listening

2021, Activations of Solidarity: Coresistance and Care presented by The Indigenous Curatorial Collective, Online Exhibition & Publication.

Wax preserved drawings and soundscape.

To listen to soundscape and read more go to:

The Online Exhibition and Publication Website

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Since We Can't Dance Together

2021, The Works: Activated presented by The Works International Visual Arts Society, Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB.

Wax preserved drawings, living plants, and mixed materials.

Artist Statement & Artist Talk

Green House now housed at Wâposo-Wâti Park and Community Garden

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