for D: becoming a tree 2022

video excerpt of performance, August 11, 2024, Kingston, Ontario (total length is 28min) with trampoline, gilded mirror & jumpsuit

quilted jumpsuit made with digitally-printed silk organza, cotton batting, raw wool, and hand-sewing of rhinestones and beads

video: a beech tree in Providence, August 2020

a branch drawing with duct tape

scan of “Apollo and Daphne” from Ovid’s Metamorphosis

reclaimed coveralls with embroidered patch

machine-stitched reproductions on wool felt of 19thC lithograph of ballerina Fanny Elssler, and etching of Apollo and Daphne from the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius, 1589.

cross-stitched machine embroidered email

“for D: becoming a tree”

505 Gallery

Calgary, Alberta

Nov. 1, 2023 - Apr 5, 2024

This project was generously funded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.