“I use digital collage to entangle images of my body with nature, the Western art canon, and the internet, generating an ambiguous tableau of fleeting figures and ambivalent spectacles. I then paint these charged associations onto slanted wood panels to remake this fragmented dream through realities of unfolding flux. The work explores the tensions between colonial concepts of authenticity, life, and the body. I make so that I may disentangle my gaze from white supremacist, patriarchal frameworks and reveal the coercive terms of recognition embedded in Canada’s cultural mosaic. ”