Trout Peak
TROUT LAKE RETREAT
MAY 2021- JULY 2022
During this journey, which was a WWOOF experience, I set out to “study” this mountain. To invite it into my everyday practice, to sit with it and marvel at it’s beauty. This practice was interlaced with a dedication to take a plunge in this glacier fed lake every day. My purpose at this spot, with this family was multilayered, but at face value you would see that I was there to tend to the gardens. We built a butterfly garden and stone pathway. Planted the yearly veggie patch and keep the flowers blooming and the weeds at bay. This too is part of this journey and part of this project. I considered myself an elemental in residence.
During the time like of this journey the seasons changed from spring to summer, and the world got hit with a head wave like none other. We reached records high of 50 degrees Celsius in British Columbia. Luckily this part of the province is a wilderness retreat and forest and snow capped peaks kept it relatively “cool” for us during this heat wave, managing highs of 37 degrees Celsius was still pretty HOT though! And this lake became my sanctuary, with snorkeling gear I would go for deep free dives, the top foot of surface water was heating up to bathtub temperatures! Hope you managed to stay cool during those crazy hot times.
anywho back to this project, much changed and I evolved during this journey, this here is my curation of this time. A mix of simple pen sketches, to Procreate digital paintings, videos and photos of this time, and excerpts of poetry written often before a cold dip in the lake or in my drawing meditations I would often write.
Enjoy this slice of my life,
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TROUT PEAK
ENTERresidency at trout lake retreait - everyday i would paint the view from the property. Trout Peak. A huge glacier, a marvel of natures architecture. this is the collection of days spent here. everyday i would also go for a cold dip in the glacier fed lake. Inside you see the video art made from the documentation of these dips.
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Curated Spaces
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Life Landscapes
EnterSpecial projects selected, highlighting the interplay between art, life and location. LIFESCAPES
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ASANAS
Asanas a Yoga poses that a practicioner flows through as a living meditation and tonning of the energetic, physical and spiritual bodies. This is a collection of Asana poses that has been disected back into the muscles, and bones of the body. This shedding of the "skin" of the body leads to themes of going within oneself during a Yoga practice. From there many branches can come into the philosophies of the self, spirit and the physical realms.
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Written Words
vamosWhen I was 20,
A VOICE INSIDE MY HEAD
said
YOU ARE A POET
and with that I knew that I could keep on expressing my inner working through words and that it didnt have to be perfect in any way , that words are art, and feelings are art, and allowing yourself to be a vehicle for this energy to take form into words, make's you a poet, and what you express becomes poetry.
This is the only place to find
my poetry work.
You are special.
