Natalie Wesselius
Mom's Plastic Bags and Books
Painting
2021
Oil and oil stick on paper
50 x 67 inches
Portrait of Mom: first of a mother-daughter diptych.
“Besides plastic bags being said by my mom to be a "polish thing", books were a scarcity in Communist Poland. When arriving in Canada, the amount of access to commodities were a bit of a shock. My mom's favourite purchase of genre were cooking books and child behavioural psychology. ”
Work by
Natalie Wesselius
Multi-disciplinary
“Obsessing over our relationships to domestic objects in a dissociating commodified world, I create psycho-active timeless spaces that signify both the presence and absence of the figure. Using...” [More]