TRAPPINGS
2025
Popcorn, rosé wine, cast bronze and pewter, wood, gold dipped steel jewelry chain, resin, activated charcoal, 2 single channel videos
TRAPPINGS was inspired by some popcorn I picked up off the floor of the Fairmont Empress Hotel bar a couple of years ago.
The work indulges in our attraction to shiny things as a way to reckon with the inherent messiness that underlies materiality. In making this work, I thought about boundaries of class, aspiration, and the inequities baked into systems of making and consuming; about mouths, mush, and what we can stomach; unswept floors, waste, and what gets dropped in the distances between production and consumption.
Exhibited at Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria BC
Photo credit: Kosar Movahedi