Oldfields School High School for Girls, Photography Class. Mamiya C330, 65mm. Kodak TRI-X. NIK Silver Efex Pro

Artist Residency Days 2-4: Just living the #oldfields dream: farm camping, interviewing #Northumberland farmers, drawing at the little station in #porthope, even caught a concert @headwatersfarm.ca where I’m living the trailer life. I could move further into the country. Could you? . @criticalmassart @ontarioartscouncil @canada.council (at Port Hope, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD2cD6Mgiu0/?igshid=s3fgqq6jqic8

This past weekend, I visited a very special place in my life in north Northumberland County. This is where the seeds of Yawnder were planted way way back. My first visit to the #peterboroughpetroglyphs was very inspiring as well. Starting next week, I’ll be diving deep into the #oldfields during my residency with @criticalmass in #PortHope, Ontario. I look forward to working with the community there and sharing my personal connection with #NorthumberlandCounty. The work that I’m making this summer and during this residency will be apart of some larger digital projects. I would like to acknowledge the support of the @CanadaCouncil for the Arts and the funding support from the @ontarioartscouncil, an agency of the Government of Ontario. I’m very grateful to have this support and to be able to continue creating. I look forward to sharing the results with you. I would also like to acknowledge that Northumberland is the traditional territory of the Anishnabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee. @CanadaCouncil #BringingTheArtsToLife @ontarioartscouncil https://www.instagram.com/p/CDe_jPDABqy/?igshid=10r17nvkumof

Do you have thoughts that burn & burn & burn inside you? For me, it’s the old fields. These are the spaces between places, symbolic of the gaps between all things, that may be reconsidered as we look for answers in these unprecedented times when the need for physical distance and social succession is bringing new perspectives to help solve extreme challenges. #oldfields is an ecological term referring to lands once maintained and then abandoned, where a natural succession occurs that can either result in the rapid return of a native ecosystem or change toward a completely different system with often unpredictable dynamics and impacts. These emerging ecosystems found in the marginal, deserted lands of my rural community have provided a backdrop for a new cast of wayward young characters making their own marks amid uncertainty. These overlooked lands provide a paradoxical landscape for the youthful explorers who find themselves in uncharted territory, accompanied by figments and fathoms, inundated by swarms in a misty atmosphere. . Burning Thoughts, 22” x 30”, #colouredpencil and #pastel, 2020. Part of my Old Fields, Revisited exhibition currently up @galleryjones alongside the works of @paulmorstadpainting in his show Make Haste But Slowly. . #oldfieldsrevisited #drawing #burningthoughts #coloredpencil #galleryjones #galleryyoun #slategallery (at Gallery Jones) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMKj8Cgd3v/?igshid=1rcfc5ng9av41

The beautiful Lilly House and gardens on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. . . . #lillyhouse #oldfields #indianapolis #indiana #museum #explore #outdoors #garden #architecture #igersusa #visitindy #travel #traveler (at Oldfields-Lilly House And Gardens At Indianapolis Museum Of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Yph1yj78E/?igshid=17a3w59fnapka

Our own religion.