Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses was influenced by the weathered and bleached remains of tree stumps on the south shore of the northeastern tip of Upper Kananaskis Lake, Alberta. There, a hazardous maze of tree stumps and logs have been remade in death by the elements, revealing that biological death does not stop the process of “becoming.” I imagined the stumps being silent creatures awaiting nightfall so they could rise up on their roots and scuttle back to the water until the next dawn.

These weathered trees are the bones of beings that continue to transform in relation to their environment and place of rest. Their beauty and spirit are remade anew by the transition into a post-living life that challenges the simplistic binary of animate-inanimate.