Water, Memory and Material

Developed through my observations of Banff National Park, the Bow River and the glaciers of the Canadian Rockies, this body of work explores the relationships between water, landscape, memory and material transformation.

Living in the Bow Valley, I became increasingly attentive to the changing character of the landscape. The Bow River shifts between emerald green and muddy brown, while seasonal changes in water, ice and surrounding geological formations reveal an environment in constant transformation. These observations prompted questions about how we experience a landscape, what it might retain of its own history, and how our identities are shaped by the places we inhabit.

Moving between glass and ceramics, I began translating these observations into material forms. Through casting, glassblowing, carving, firing and assembling, I explored movement, erosion, accumulation and the passage of time. My investigations developed through making, observation, reading and listening, bringing together phenomenological questions about experience and perception with a growing interest in environmental change and bioregional identity.

Across these works, I consider how materials might reveal traces of processes that extend beyond human experience. Water-worn stones, frozen river surfaces and fragmented glass compositions become ways of imagining histories that cannot be fully recovered. Rather than attempting to reproduce the landscape, I use material experimentation to explore how we come to know it through observation, memory, imagination and physical encounter.