For this project, I went into the Greenbelt around Ottawa and collected fallen sticks from the ground. I chose places that hold personal meaning for me but are also familiar public spaces used by many people in the city.

Each stick was cut in half. I kept one half and returned the other to the exact place where I found it. The half I kept was later cast in bronze. On each bronze cast, I engraved the date the stick was found and the GPS coordinates of where the stick was found and its other half was returned.

The engravings point back to a real place and a specific moment. They make the bronze object feel like a marker, a record, or a clue. the work is evidence of an action that took place in the landscape.

I am interested in the way the work is divided between two places. One half becomes a bronze object displayed before the viewer, remaining unchanged . The other stays in the forest, where it will gradually disappear.

By returning one half of each stick to the forest, I allow part of the work to continue outside my control. It may be buried, covered by leaves, broken down by insects, carried away, or slowly absorbed back into the ground. Its condition becomes unknowable.

For this work, there will always be another half existing somewhere in some form, even when it can no longer be seen or found. The bronze half remains fixed, holding the date and location as a record of the separation. The work exists between these two halves: one visible and one elsewhere.