In 2012 I moved my studio to the quiet setting of a former church in Vancouver, BC. This relocation directly inspired my most recent body of work The Urn Audition, 2016. Within a scene of collected objects the installation based photograph combines drawing, painting and etching. The result is an elaborate still life of multi-linear and often auto-fictive narrative. In search of the perfect props I focused on obscure collectables from thrift markets and came to accumulate deco era vases. The porous and bone like texture and torso like shape of each vessel endows a deep sense of bodily reference. In collective force the vessels push the two-dimensional boundary of the picture plane to encompass an aura of Momento Mori. They play host to a personal narrative of life and loss. Each objects recurring role contributes to a grand gesture of memory and remembrance—an endless wanting of never ending possibility.
