Tag Archives: conceptual sculpture

small Trinity, 2016

September 20, 2016 – 8:35 pm

small Trinity was the title of my MFA thesis exhibition, which was mounted at the Carleton University Art Gallery in the last two weeks of August 2016. For the exhibition, I presented the three series of works in which I attempted to capture the essence of an explosion as a sculpture: the Exploded Vases (2014-15);…

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Cast Explosions, 2015

September 20, 2016 – 3:15 pm

Having traced the path of a small explosion in the Exploded Vases series, I became intent on capturing the shape of the explosion itself. So, for the Cast Explosion series, I ignited the firecrackers in balls of soft clay. The blast created a void within the clay that could be filled with wax and the cast in…

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Exploded Vases, 2014

September 20, 2016 – 1:41 pm

In the fall of 2014, I began an Master’s of Fine Arts Program at the University of Ottawa. At the time, I was still creating the Vase Recording, but during a visiting artist critique, it was observed that having the sound scribed into the vases was interesting, but what would happen if sound could change the shape of…

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