Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Water Simulations
Video Installation, Three channel video, 00.05:00 (loop), 2016
This work was created during my residency at the NSCAD Studio Community Residence in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Immersed in a place shaped by sailing, boatbuilding, and maritime life, I became absorbed by the water - spending hours observing and documenting its rhythms and shifting surfaces.
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Sky TV, which transposes the act of cloud gazing onto a screen in the gallery through a live feed of the sky, this piece reflects on the practice of “water-gazing.” Here, however, the experience is reimagined as a simulation, composed of three moving photographs of the bay.
The accompanying soundscape (accessible via icon below) layers whistles, hums, breath, and the rustle of fabric to echo the wind moving across the sea—a murmuring simulation of water and air within the stillness of the gallery.
Mending Pages
Participatory Artwork: plywood scraps, wooden dowels, unravelled knitwear, misc. threads.
During my AA2A residency at Buckinghamshire New University, I organized three workshops centred on the quiet craft of darning - a gesture of repair historically passed from hand to hand. I developed teaching tools to facilitate learning: illustrated handouts, and wooden frames supporting soft knit ‘pages.’ Like lined pieces of paper for handwriting, these small textiles were a place to practice, to mark, to learn.
Here are the first stitches of learners - meandering, unsure, vivid with intuition. Threads wander, colours clash, and in that raw stitchwork, something essential emerges: a conversation between hand and material, damage and care.
Make a hole, mend a hole.
This piece speaks to the duality of destruction and repair, a tension that mirrors many aspects of our lives. Destruction has long inspired artistic expression, but here, repair takes precedence. It’s an act of care, resilience, and reflection. How we choose to mend speaks to how we move forward.
In the workshops, stories surfaced - of our favourite textiles, of clothes mended by nans, of garments held together with love. I witnessed moments of play, frustration, discovery. I hope a few will carry these techniques with them beyond the frame.
This piece is not mine alone. It belongs to all those who sat and sewed - students of Fine Art, Fashion, Textiles and Costume - each thread part of a growing circle of knowledge, stitched together with patience. Big thank you to: Willow Ashbury, Kayleigh Baulk, Holly Burgess, Sanica Cabral, Eden Calver, Mia Chandler, Sophie Cluderay, River Dance, Keavey Doyle, Melanie Ferris, Nick Gunkell, Gabriela Lara-Moreno, Ember Oak Maggs, Emma Meaney, Megan, Messua Wolff, Shannon Moran, Ethan Musgreaves, Grace Rumsey, Matilda Walker and Lucy Williams.
