Bateau Island Stone Circle

2022 – Private commission
Materials – Beach boulders
Location – Parry Sound ON

Bateau Island Stone Circle

Context

Contour Park

2023 – Imagine finding low ancient stone walls snaking across the terrain while maintaining a perfectly level grade as they follow the contours of the meadow and disappear into a majestic stand of white pine. Here in the middle of high-rise condominiums and arterial roadways, your senses are transported to a wild space set aside from the urban fabric, a place that is steep and quiet. These organic lines of piled fieldstone define the undulations of the rolling moraine topography, a microcosm of the larger area before an army of graders and excavators terraformed it for new homes and business. This conceptual land art installation is both a tribute to the hard-fought gains of community activism as well as a monument for what we have lost to urban sprawl across the Greenbelt. Contour Park tells the story of the land, a story measured in geologic time at the confluence of culture, history, power, and progress.
Materials – reclaimed limestone, earthworks,
Location – Guelph ON

Contour Park Character Image

Remember Me Memorial

2023 – Approaching the memorial, we notice this community of grasses radiating out from a central stone feature like a pebble in the water. Each plant representing another lost to overdose. Near the edge, some of the grasses appear new and individual, but blend into a cohesive whole towards the older plantings near the centre. The narrow private-like walkway is intersected at the centre where several large stones form a fractured circle. The surface is rough-hewn like an unfinished sculpture. Facing one pathway reads the inscription “Friends” and in the other direction, “Family.”
Materials – limestone, earthworks, Big Bluestem grasses
Location – Guelph ON
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Remember Me Memorial

Central Labyrinth

2016 – Seeking to foster a physical, emotional and spiritual sense of interconnectedness with the environment the hillside of this exclusive girl’s school, the labyrinth is encircled by four large posts marking the cardinal directions using the rising and setting of the sun as reference points. The eight smaller posts divide the circle into a large analog clock face.
Materials – earth, wood, grass
Location – Toronto ON

Forest Classroom

2012 – What would a curriculum look like if we got out of the classroom and in the natural environment, explore, ask questions, have discussions, make drawings in nature, develop a deeper relationship with and understanding of our place?
Materials – limestone, earthworks, plant material
Location – Toronto ON

Festival Trees

2003 – Festival Trees is a temporary public sculpture following my six-month internship in Shanghai. The wrapping of trees is a unique Asian horticultural practice of using hemp to protect the trunks and branches of newly transplanted trees. The bright red colour creates a dramatic abstract texture against the backdrop of our cold Canadian winter and is Chinese colour representing good luck and hope for the future.
Materials – red nylon rope
Location – University of Guelph, ON
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Rubber Circle

2017 – The orientation of each tire rotates on the vertical plane from tangential to perpendicular before returning to the start creating a complexity of engagement opportunities.
Materials – stone, earth
Location – Erin ON
43.770892, -80.060719

The Sound of Play

2019 – Modular and interchangeable bespoke natural cedar playground instruments including a 34 string harp with aluminum resonator, tuned teak wood xylophone, brass cymbals, cowbells, tambourine, base drum and aluminum chimes.
Materials – metal, plastic, wood
Location: Hamilton ON

Cube Town

2018 – Jane Jacobs meets Piet Mondrian with modular and movable playhouses assembled in such a manner that no two buildings are the same colour combination or design. Random openings can be single or double, and form either a window or a door. (That’s not to say you can’t climb out a window.) The houses are organised within a city grid pattern painted on the asphalt. They are heavy enough to require teamwork to move with more ambitious interventions requiring more consensus.
Materials – shipping pallets, acrylic paint
Location – Toronto ON

Spiral Mountain (rock)

2019 – Viewed from above the site is intersected by an S-shaped line establishing a taijitu of stone and wood. The stone tower echo’s the early fortifications of this historically significant area while the design of the timber climbing structure reflects the pre-colonial architecture of the First Nations of the region.

Spiral Mountain (wood)

2019 – Viewed from above the site is intersected by an S-shaped line establishing a taijitu of stone and wood. The stone tower echo’s the early fortifications of this historically significant area while the design of the timber climbing structure reflects the pre-colonial architecture of the First Nations of the region.

Yellow Line

2018 – Abstract patterns and shapes on the ground plane combine with the sculptural features of this playscape to encourage a diverse range of unprogrammed creative play opportunities. The flexible surface mount delineators extending the grass maze…
Location – Guelph ON
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The Hero’s Journey

2018 – Transcend the everyday world and enter the imaginary experience of a hero’s journey. Enter the sand play area through the remains of an ancient stone arch. Stack, reconfigure, dismantle materials and create sculptures. Explore. Upon reaching the tower, ring the solitary carillon to carry your song through the air. Descend into the damp subterranean passageway crossing over and under giant roots. Discover the lower primal world, beat the central drum and reverberate the earth.
Submission – Jardins De Metis International Garden Festival

The Hero’s Journey

Detail of the subterranean section of the installation.