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(Mixed media; variable dimensions) Stride Gallery, Calgary (Photo: Rebecca Rowley)

(Mixed media; variable dimensions) Stride Gallery, Calgary (Photo: Rebecca Rowley)

(Somnambulist Maquette #1), 2007 (mulberry paper, butternut, mdf; 20 x 6  x 4")

(Somnambulist Maquette #1), 2007 (detail)

(Somnambulist Maquette #2), 2007 (pine, maple, ash; 15 x 6 x 4")

(Somnambulist Maquette #3), 2012 (fir, birch plywood, ipé; 13 x 6 x 4")

(Somnambulist Maquette #3), 2012 (detail)

(Mixed media; each 12.5 x 8 x 3.5")

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(Mixed media; each 7 x 48 x 3.5") An open-ended series dealing with poetic imagery referring to personal and family history. These shadowboxes with carved or constructed wooden elements use a panoramic format to suggest a narrative unfolding over time.

(Mixed media; 7 x 48 x 3.5") Constructed from individual pieces of basswood, the bridge is based on Monet’s Japanese bridge at Giverny. There is one chair for each living member of my immediate family, all cut from a single stick of ipé.

Pont Japonais, 2009 (Detail)

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(Adobe Illustrator, variable dimensions) Preliminary drawing based on comparison of images of Monet’s original bridge at Giverny and its modern reproduction.

(Basswood, pine, balsa, spruce, fir ply; 7 x 48 x 3.5")

(Detail)

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(Maple, bamboo, spruce, fir ply; 7 x 48 x 3.5")

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(m/m with audio; 58 x 20 x 16") A scale model of the 14 x 20’ shack occupied by the Oya family at the Roseberry internment camp in British Columbia during the Second World War. An audio track of the artist’s mother washing rice emanates from the shack.

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(Found objects, water, rice; 30 x 46 x 22”) installation with internal audio of a sled dragged through the snow.

(Mixed media and projected video; 55 x 34 x 54”) This work recounts childhood episodes of dreaming and sleepwalking.