title: inked dreams (english, spanish and french text)
year: 2012
material: ink on paper
paper size: 57 x 76 cm.
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title: hendrickje (varied edition lino-cut)
year: 2012
material: paint on paper
image size: 15 x 41 cm.
photos: guy l’heureux
i have started a series of lino-cuts based upon the ever growing pile of orange peels in my studio. this is one of those lino-cuts.
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title: inked dreams (english and french text)
year: 2012
material: ink on paper
paper size: 57 x 76 cm.
photos: guy l’heureux
these dream texts are from the “dream listener” project. here the text is painted on paper using ink to fill in the negative space within the grid.
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title: (recent work)
year: 2010
material: ink on paper
photos: guy l’heureux
i began making ink drawings based upon the orange peels i had been collecting over the year. as the work progressed, and the pile of orange peels grew, a kind of landscape evolved and as i was following the contours of the peels with my hand tracing the line with the pen and ink over paper, i had the sensation of traveling over space, never knowing where the line would take me. to me, it felt like flaneuring, this wandering line, this trace of a passage through a strangely twisting and curling land of peels.
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title: what happens when nothing happens
year: 2009
material: inkjet print on paper
location: galleri rotor 1, göteborg, sweden and fofa gallery, montréal, québec
curated by: véronique malo and emily mennerdahl, independant study group
what happens when nothing happens is an exhibition of works by canadian and swedish artists developed by concordia graduates véronique malo and emily mennerdahl(independant study group) while in residency in valand, sweden.
the exhibition presents a selection of artists’ works that reveal what happens before, during or after projects: unedited and unrealised ideas, sketches, texts, sounds, scribbles, drawings, trials and failures —pendant explorations, transitory ideas and ephemeral works that together form the creative process.
the artists included in the exhibition are:
chantal durand, anna jane mcintyre, tamara henderson and jon knowles, jacinthe lessard, sean montgomery and eric simon, diane morin, taien ng-chan, lina persson, meghan price, jerry ropson, karen elaine spencer and christin wahlström.
below are four sketches (out of twelve) which were included in the exhibition:
title: never happened : baguette
–i had an idea for a performance where either i, or employees hired by me, would give out baguettes that would somehow refer to the homeless population in paris while referencing the storming of the bastille ( i was in paris at the time)… i was thinking about hiring the homeless men who slept below my window …never happened.
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title: paris ink
year: 2005
material: ink on paper
location: paris, france
supported by: conseil des arts et des lettres du québec
photos: guy l’heureux
in 2005 i was in paris for six months. i had been awarded a residency by the conseil des arts et des lettres du québec. the project i proposed to undertake was around the idea of the flaneur, (i.e., the wanderer.) the idea was to situate my practice of wandering and metro riding within the historical lineage of the paris flaneur, a.k.a. baudelaire et al.
however…
instead of wandering i withdrew to the studio and did pen and ink drawings of dead flowers and angst-ridden figures. (i did manage to fit a respectful amount of wandering in to document traces of homelessness as well…but that is another story.)
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title: river walker
year: 2004/2005
location: verdun, québec
in the winter of 2004/2005 i lived in verdun, quèbec. close to the saint laurent river. every day i would walk down to the river and trudge through snow drifts to get to the path along its shore. everything was white with snow. the river was frozen. dried stalks and twigs and branches from last years growth poked through the snow–they were like beautiful line drawings, black against white. the river, the whiteness and the fragility of these delicate remnants became charged for me. i started to carry a pen and little squares of paper in my coat pocket. during my walk i would stop and crouch, take off my mittens, retrieve my pen and paper and draw. these are some of the small drawings… i called the series river walker.
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