12th Avenue Mirrors, 2023-2024

Charcoal Relief, Chine-Collé on Rives BFK ,11.25x15”

In an interval of four city blocks, nineteen American elm trees hug a cramped and freeway-like stretch of road in East Vancouver, B.C. Every day, vehicles accidentally strike the towering elms. Automobiles surrender their side-view mirrors, unintentionally scaring the trunks, a slow form of carving and recording. Velocity paired with a lack of attentiveness provides a sparkling and reflective palimpsest of detritus. Occasionally, shattered mirrors surface like pieces of a wreck washing to shore.

Months of cautiously collecting these fragments have given way to a method of printing and cataloging these chance meetings - a re-enchantment of sorts. Through meditative walks and printing their intricacies, I've built a superstitious collection of forgotten objects from others' misfortune.