Born in the urgency of a local forest's scheduled clear cut, the Living Forest Institute evolved from Forest classrooms to concerts under the trees, artist collaborations, walks, gatherings, and creative interventions exploring new ways of relating to old-growth ecosystems, community, and place.
Mixed-media works created from recycled magazines, printed ephemera, packaging, and visual debris and given new life through first-thought-best-thought exploration, pattern recognition, and happy accidents.
+ Gallery Show at the Gumboot Cafe, 2021
An AI-fueled mashup of a high-end fashion house with a hyper-local forest charter to create a surreal editorial mythology that comments on forests, luxury, technology, and emotional attachment to place.
+ Pop Up Gallery at Creek Daze, 2023
+ Gallery Show at the Gumboot Cafe, February 2024
An ongoing exploration via Tumblr, screencaps and screensavers of patterns, apophenia, systems, and visual recurrence examining how we construct order, identity, and narrative within an overwhelmingly chaotic universe.
+ Presented at the Gibsons BC Pecha Kucha in 2012
+ Gallery Show at the Gumboot Cafe, 2024
A collaborative publishing experiment with Prose & Passion pairing an original short story with curated cannabis strains, printed matter, and cassette-era packaging systems to explore narrative atmosphere and altered perception.
Film and television projects examining memory, identity, ecology, institutional structures, altered states, and the fragile narratives through which we construct reality.
A growing body of films, dinners, and community-based experiments documenting the ways meals create connection, memory, identity, and shared experience.