What’s Under the Couch Cushion?
What’s Under the Couch Cushion?, 2025.
Film and fabric weaving | 1x11ft
What’s Under the Couch Cushion? is a film weaving, consisting of scrap materials. It was a meditative process of meticulously picking apart and puzzling together found footage and failed exposures. I used fabric dye to dye some of the film green and yellow to mirror the two main fibre threads of colours. As well as incorporating buried film further into the bottom of the work.
This weaving detaches the moving image from its typical mode of viewing, re-attaching it to an assemblage that censors every other frame. These protected, privatized frames then transform impersonal moments into precious objects to decode. The piece entwines contradictory elements of discovery and censorship, care and destruction, and comfort and agitation. Interlacing connections between the malleable texture of the fabric and stiff material of film.
Group Exhibition “Poetics of Light: Experiments in Photography”
Ace Art Inc. 206 Princess St. Winnipeg, MB.
Curated by Mell Edwards.
Documented by Sarah Fuller.
Exhibition Description:
The way we see the world starts with light – the human eye turns it into images through a chemical process, and photography mirrors this transformation. Without light, there can be no photography – but within light, there is infinite possibility. While the mechanics of the eye remain constant, the art of photography offers endless possibilities of experimentation with light and process. Poetics of Light: Experiments in Photography celebrates artists who push the boundaries of traditional photographic methods, embracing creativity, innovation, and exploration within their practices.
This exhibition highlights the work of photographers who are ethnic minorities, 2SLGBTQ+, and disabled, each viewing the world through the unique lens of their lived experiences. Their experimental approaches challenge normative ideas of what photography can be, reimagining the medium in deeply personal and transformative ways. By playing with light, shadow, materials, and techniques, these artists create works that embody their perspectives and identities.
