photography
Art School Memoirs
2009
Photographic Installation, Site-specific
Notes
I attended the University of Regina from the years 2004-2009. In that time I graduated with a BFA majoring in Intermedia. I used to refer to myself as “the ghost of Intermedia Regina”. I spent so much time in the halls, studios and nooks spread across campus throughout those years. Even on Friday nights when people would be out having fun or at home relaxing, I would be lurking in the basement of the Riddell Center. I feel that I have a mystical relationship with the architecture of the UofR; “Art School Memoirs” is my tribute to the connection I feel with this building and a ritualistic need to return to that space for meditative purposes. In a broader sense, I hope that this work encourages viewers to contemplate the mundane. I feel a great sense of warmth being aware of the exact shape and energy that a small imperfection on the wall offers. I want to amplify such subtle realities because I believe that they are as potent of an image as a flesh wound or a sun set. This work is not about finding “hidden beauty” in the everyday (a “service” many artists claim to provide). Rather it is about a magical and humorous connectivity to what is around us, whatever that may be.