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Sumac Oracle
Nephylia
[2025]
41 in. x 26 in. x 12 in.
Common reed, goldenrod, tea scraps, plant medicine, beeswax, charcoal pigment, hemerocallis pod, brown bag, sunflowers, goldenrod galls, twigs.
Lucanus cervus [2025]
2 ft x 2 ft
Branches, flax, wasp paper, hosta, hydrangea, sunflower, willow charcoal, medicinal plants, tea, leaves, rose, lavander, rudbeckia, goldenrod gall, birch ash.
Anax junius[2025]
24 in x 22 in x 6.5 in
Flax paper, milkweed paper, sunflower, cottonwood, wool, seeds (Goldenrod, milkweed, echinacea, rudbeckia), wasp nest, roots, foliage.
Thymus vulgaris [2025]
2 ft x 1.5 ft
Wool, milkweed, wasp paper, iris leaves, goldenrod, echinacea seeds, hosta, hydrangea, white pine, maple.
Made with wool from my hometown that I have processed fully, and dyed with community garden allies.
Hemerocallis membrane [2024]
4.5 ft x 3ft
Flax, branches, bark pigment, crystals, cardboard pulp.
Decomposing au Boisé du Parc-Saint-Sulpice, Montréal, QC.
Epilobium pratense - nidification de la décomposition
[2024]
3 ft x 3 ft
Flax, wasp paper, seeds (Achillea millefolium, Trifolium pratense, Echinacea purpurea, Asclepias syriaca, Hypericum perforatum), jute, leaves, twigs, wood, sheep fleece, corn husk, fairy stone, willow ash, jade, moonstones, milkweed seeds and silk, organic brown bag, rocks, rosehips, cedar.
Decomposing at Boisé du Parc-Saint-Sulpice, Montréal, QC.
Epilobium was pulled by the wheel of site-specific healing; grounds, soil, backyards, community gardens, woodlands, and ravines to foster dialogue, unearthing the secrets that intentional humility and ritualized fertility can assemble in collectivity. Can we experience decay as liberation, as a path to collective repair and mutual aid? What if decay was soft like a honey bath?
Petal of Venus
[2024]
12 ft x 10 ft
Charred wood, cow hip bones, sumac, sheep woold, milkweed fibre and pods, stones, bark, maple branches, willow, haw, quartz, flax, roses, nettles, lemon balm, wild camomille.
Decomposing in a Maple barn, by the land I grew up by, Laurentides, QC.
Part of the Earth Tones Exhibit: Magic Items.
As the Earth kisses the moon, the wind blows to reunite the above and infuse medicine.
They are back with me now,
spirits of the wind,
beyond the sun and the moon,
they go north to west,
instinct guiding,
But willed by the enchanted amulet,
I am sitting,
watching them come and go,
from sunrise to sundown,
within the spirit urging.
Once I will turn to the ground,
Once I will feel the wind blowing me beyond,
Raffles of memmories turning to ashes,
the cycle once I was born from.
Opening imaginary wolds,
once where we were reunited.
Sumac Oracle
[2022]
9ft x 9ft
Sumac, braided willo, stones, goldenrod, pine, roses thorns, mugwort, milkweed, seedpods, charred wood, leaves, barks, roots.
Decomposing at la Falaise St-Jacques, Montréal.
Reaching to the Middle world,
I expand my roots,
to grasp to kin trees,
earthing the love,
breathing the mists,
steeping the medicine,
blowing my shadows.