After completing my studies at Vancouver Film School, I returned to the rural idyll of Hornby Island. Here, I had the luxury of silence to begin to process the anger I had felt inside after witnessing the great divide of human experience. I began to visually articulate all that I had lived through, seen and felt in my time away.I had taken photographs while living in the Downtown Eastside which I had the time to study and reflect upon. I wanted to do something more than have them just be a collection of pictures stored in a box.. I felt the people living that experience needed to be seen and heard in a way that wasn't appropriating their pain. I scanned the photos into the computer along with a body of abstracted paintings I had also done in that time. The act of creating them into a digital collage image helped me to process my experience and my reaction to seeing so many people and situations where there was no control.
Below are some samples from this body of work.
