Time Capsule #1 2022
eight plaster casts 7''x5''x4'' 2022
In early 2022 I created a few small self-portraits and left them scattered throughout southern Ontario and Quebec, all hidden in places that were important to me during the pandemic when all indoor spaces were closed. Carefully placed in sand, under leaves, rocks or logs
The work originated from the anxiety and dread I experienced during that time while working in person, rising a small child and keeping my elderly parents safe. I found that making art and thinking in terms of deep time could alleviate my worries about my own impermanence.
The small plaster busts are meant to lie undisturbed like time capsules where they will very slowly be absorbed back into the earth.
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Time Capsule #2 2024
laser-engraved porcelain tile 6''x 8''
For this project, I created three laser-engraved porcelain tile plaques, and distributed them in the same way as the busts. I made three versions, each plaque is marked with the date, biographical information, and the timeless if somewhat unoriginal statement "I was here". Unlike the plaster casts, these plaques are designed to endure much longer and are meant to be eventually found. Some may be discovered within my lifetime, while others may not be found for many decades or even centuries. This project serves as both an art project, a time capsule, a meditation on deep time and the impermanence of life and even a cut-rate funerary monument. They are a cathartic repones to my many personal anxieties as well as a phycological balm to the cascading threats of geopolitical, environmental and technological crisis. The locations are so nondescript I have a general idea where they are but wouldn't be able to pin point them exactly. they are lost to the future! whatever that might be.
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If on the remote chance you find one of these works, you can keep it! or not. Feel free contact me and let me know where you found it! or not. And full disclosure, some of the earlier plaques and busts were wrapped in lots and lots of plastic for longevity which in retrospect wasn't environmentally ideal or necessary for the concept and was dropped with the later iterations. Also, this is entirely a personal project that was not funded by any organization.
