Homecoming

Homecoming exhibited Sept 13-Oct 11, 2023 at Dal Schindell Gallery on the stolen, unceded land of the Musqueam Nation, also known as UBC campus. ‘Homecoming’ is an exploration, a meditation on ‘becoming human’ and what it means to live as intra-beings (Thich Nhat Hanh, 2017 &  Daniel Siegel, 2022 ). In ‘Homecoming’ each piece is an experiment, a response, a conversation that I have had both with self, environment and ‘other’ and has been co-created through a process involving embodied listening, making, writing, and sharing. Materials used throughout the storytelling process are a unique mixture of encaustic wax mediums, hand-dyed silks, clay, plaster and watercolours.

Take a visual/audio tour with the accompanying zine: Homecoming Zine

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Contemporary dancer Joanna Anderson performed at the opening in front of an encaustic installation piece created by Katrina Grabner from a plaster mold made from Joanna’s body. This dance is a response to the themes of Homecoming.

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Take an audio tour of homecoming below. Each link below was connected to an art piece with a QR code while the art exhibit was displayed.

The Invitation

101 Ways To Fall In Love (there are many kinds of love letters)

The Space Between

Where Are We Going and Remember When There Were No Straight Lines

You Are A NEF! (river of time)

(Thump, Thump (the only way out is through)

Red! Series

March of the Grandmothers

The Three Ages of Woman II Series

Time is a Flower (the fabric of reality)

Grandmother’s Den

Every Seed I’ve Ever Been

Kitten Curl

I am Rooted

Feast of Love (my love is a wild garden)

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=UHEceV6IzYY%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

Snippets of Joanna’s dance performance to poem adapted and added to, with permission, by poet Kristin Jack (Flowing To You, from his collection, Poetry and Prophecy.