Record Snow Fall

Installation and durational performance
2017-Ongoing

For over a decade I have been saving my receipts and bills.  During the same time period I have watched one winter after another of increasingly unusual and extreme weather. In response, I am sewing this archive of my consumerism into a quilt of individually embroidered snowflakes. This gesture riffs off the idea (myth) that are no two snowflakes alike - paying homage to the rich history of variation and improvisation in women's hand work and also in contrast the mass production of most of the things I have purchased. My slow and futile labour of embellishment is a meditation on climate and capitalism.  

I performed Record Snow Fall in many places including in several storefronts, a gallery window, in an old farm house and as a video work.

The creation of this work is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council.

Exhibition History:

The Lore of the Land, Blackberry Farms, 2017. Curator: Fan-Ling Suen of Lore Arts.

IF International Improvisation Festival, 2020. Artistic Director: Ajay Heble.

Photos:  Christina Kingsbury, Shannon Kingsbury and Janet Morton