Environmental Endangerment (2019), Digital Photography Installation with Found Objects.
This work was produced for the Inaugural KPU B.F.A Alumni Exhibition, CONFLUX. I continued to look at similar themes to my graduation exhibition work, A Walk In The Woods (2016). All the garbage that was found for this work was from the Canyon Heights/Handsworth area of North Vancouver. This work includes documentation photographs of the collected garbage, that was then made into sculptures of animals. I chose to make sculptures out of garbage to comment on the animals we are killing in our cities (There had been over fifty black bears killed due to human activity from May to August 2019). When autopsied, many of these animals are found to be containing items that belong to us, namely plastic. This is tough to conceive as I have learned to co-exist with all wildlife (as when I lived in Whistler) and was taught that we are in the animals’ territory, not the other way around. We need to be more aware of how to co-exist with with all beings, and this work comments on this and how we are not only their natural habitat, but also their lives with our own waste.