ARTIST’S STATEMENT

ARTIST’S STATEMENT [250 words]
Banff Centre : WALKING and ART Creative Residency Application
March 2007 for 21 September – 02 November 2007

My work is about collaboration. I am interested in the space between. Between myself and others. Between all kinds of things, real or imagined: between ideas, between objects, between individuals, between communities.

I seek to activate that space.

I am research oriented, and find myself frequently motivated initially by concept and process.

I create work by building on concrete experience and active experimentation.

A central theme of my work is loss and remembrance, most often visibly applied to larger scale projects I design which examine one’s relation to the environment and nature.

Since the spring of 2006 my art practice manifests itself regularly in the medium of walking. Most walks are created to engage the public in some way, depending on the location and other specifics.

The underlying, deep-rooted methodology of my life work incorporates art as the medium for an experimental approach to environmental education of the general public. To that end, I am very driven to create public art, and to create works that exist outside of the traditional gallery and museum setting. It is here, I believe, that new audiences are “found” . . . out in the everyday world which they inhabit.