Ongoing. Medication bottles, pill capsules, fabric, beats, trash, string, wrappers, paper, scraps. Since 2021 and ongoing.
Medicated is a commentary on consumerism and capitalism, how we have collectively begun to use material things to regulate our emotions and escape from ourselves. We medicate ourselves with material things under the mask of them bringing us more joy instead of turning to love, connection, safety, meditation and other ways to regulate ourselves and enjoy our lives.
2020, All the beauty products I used during the pandemic
2023, Golf tees collected during a 9-hole round of golf.
2023 -2024, photos of trash picked up during litter cleanups, digitally edited to look like they’re viewed through a kaleidoscope to make them look aesthetically pleasing.
While working with A Greener Future, an organization that runs litter cleanups in the GTHA. I was always talking and thinking about plastic. This video is a series of clips compiled from yarn.