'Rise Up' is a metaphor for the human spirit and our boundless capacity for exploration & adventure. This piece invites viewers to step into a world of nostalgia to feel the echoes of flight that still resonate in this retired airforce base at BASE31.
Symbolizing optimism, wonder and imagination, 'Rise Up' is a series of hand crafted hot air balloons coated in a captivating color-shifting material which reflects facets of light, playfulness and whimsy throughout the space.
‘The Shroom Room’ is an immersive installation consisting of larger-than-life mushrooms that create the illusion of wandering through an infinite color-changing psilocybin forest. This installation is inspired by the role that mushrooms can play in our lives, a space to challenge our perspective, for self-reflection, discovery & growth.
Mixed media, 2022
Look Up! is an immersive installation consisting of multi-coloured balloons, creating a disco daydream. These paper balloons are coated in a metallic, colour changing film that reflects facets of light throughout the space. This installation represents a future of optimism, imagination and reflection.
Mixed media, 2021
Deep Jungle is a fully immersive installation in collaboration with Universal Music & Mondo Forma. Five artists were partnered up with musicians to create Art-Rooms as part of an experiential maze in The Funhouse Toronto.
This room was inspired by the lush, floral jungle aesthetic of rapper Jazz Cartier, complete with scent, sound and touch activated sculpture.
Lighting by: Urban Visuals & Projections by: Live Video Art
Mixed Media, 2019
Constellations draws a parallel between the stars in the sky and the city lights. When looking down upon a city, the stars appear to have fallen, captured by the people to light up their homes. The inside of the domes presents a viewer with an intimate look at a city scape, which mirrors the opposing stars. The cascading texture and varying depths of black paper evokes an expansive ski, which blocks out any other light to give the view and immersive experience. Like the symbols and characters that have been created from the stars in the sky, Constellations compels the viewer to look at city lights in a new way, with a myriad of patterns, characters and stories.
Hand done paper-cut, 2012
Heels & Heart hosts a wearable-art competitive fashion show annually, which donates all the proceeds to the Leukemia & Lymphoma of Canada. White Reef was awarded 1st place in the 2013 edition.
Temperatures around the world are rising due to climate change and we are constantly seeing the effect of this on our environment. What we don’t see in our daily life is the effects of the underwater. Bleaching of the coral reef is caused by rising temperates and acid levels in the waters leaving a ghostly resemblance of the colorful coral reefs that once were.
Model: Chelsea Chisholm
This idea of ‘architectural skin’ plays with the modern architectural notion that a building is like a living organism. Inspired by the design of nests and hives, animal architecture is influential to the buildings we inhabit ourselves. Working with light and semi-transparent materials ‘Synecdoche’ intertwine the fragile layers with strong graphic shapes. The physicality of these combined materials produces a preface that is both visually absorbing and tactile.
Mixed Media, 2011
Photography by Helene Elsborg
Electronics by Peter Rockwell
Screen print on hand done paper cut
Size varies, April 2011
Mixed Media, Dec 2010
Photography by Helene Elsborg
