Erlking

In Erlking, I take on a host of personas connected to the German and Scandinavian mythical creature that lures foolish travelers to their death. Drawing from psychoanalysis and the literary works of Angela Carter, I invoke personas in flux.

Mound
Colour photograph
24" × 36"
2011

Thunderhead
Colour photograph
30" × 20"
2011

Faithful Guide
Colour photograph
24" × 36"
2011

Watershed
Colour photograph
30" × 20"
2011

Erkling, National Gallery of Canada, Permanent Collection.

Tundrunning (Sample)
Full-length video: 2:50, 2011

In this tragicomic piece, the mask and the act of performance play important roles as vehicles of self-transformation and self-definition in order to explore and confront the other within.

Still Hunter
Colour photograph
24" × 36"
2011

Still Hunter, colour photograph, Attitudes in Latitudes: The Northern Wild Explores the Tropics, Art Center/South Florida, March 14-April 26 2015.

(Evin Collis - Right)

Mourning Dove
Colour photograph
24" × 36"
2011

Wilderness Adventures
Colour photograph
24" × 36"
2011

Erlking
Colour photograph
30" × 20"
2011

Wilderness Adventures
Video, 00:10
2013

Wilderness Adventures was first presented in the context of a public art project curated by John G. Hampton in Regina and Saskatoon. This work was shown on digital billboards in these cities with the work of Dana Claxton, Hadley & Maxwell, Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Jon Sasaki, Kelly Mark, and Lee Henderson

Monarch
Colour photograph
30" × 20"
2011

Reservoir
Colour photograph
30" × 20"
2011

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