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]]>These works however abstracted are nonetheless familiar to our visceral experience and recognition of the world: ephemeral frost patterns become lush palm fronds, or surreal chinoiserie wallpaper. These images as such have the potential to challenge our perception and ways of seeing and understanding visual language. They can expand the imagination; play on our sense of wonder and to connect us to the idea of commonality in nature.
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]]>Ink on Paper
5″x7″
individual images 3″x4″
2010
I became interested in the artificial images of the world we present to children which they embrace as real. I used stuffed animals and childrenâ€
s illustrations as models for these artificial images. In these works the question arises as to what if anything other than temporary comfort do these objects and images offer to children that is instructive about the actual world? Does a stuffed monkey or polar bear (fabricated in China) teach a child about a real monkey or very un-huggable polar bear that struggles to survive in the elements? Does their “cuteness†seed a disconnect from our real environment that is carried into adult-hood when confronted with the real?
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x30â€2003
Old mouldy photos were the inspiration to resurrect the memory of this collection of famous Canadians.
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]]>Acrylic Silkscreen Ink on Canvas, 3â€
x 3†each
These multiple silk-screens are created from digital photographs of hydro structures.
These structures have become part of our pervasive, visual, and  industrial landscape and skyline with which we co-exist and on some level we accept for the energy they provide to us.
I find these structures possess an alarming ugliness and aesthetic beauty at the same time. I am interested in the tension this creates and have re-invented these silhouettes into powerful, abstracted, graphic images in electric pink, red, and black in order to explore this tension.
-Ottilie
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