Walk Lightly Move Deeply

Walk Lightly Move Deeply uses the idea of the north as a metaphor for the quest for home, a search for Hyperborea, a place that exists only in the mind. In its creation, I traverse over water and ice, over mine tailings that flow like the river that once flowed over them. I encounter stories of lost children, and I mourn fallen and hewn trees, always sensing both a living and dying presence of nature.Grace, Lost, Found, Lost was inspired by two women who were in the Yukon during the Gold Rush one century ago, Kate Carmack, née Shaaw Tlaà, and Ana de Graf, who lost children in different ways. The work represents the weight of grief balanced with hope. I feel that this petticoat would fit nicely in the smaller gallery.Voyages is about infant death. This piece has a video of the sea projected onto the graphite covered paper. The qiviut wool heart hangs between the sea and the net; it is filled with melting ice. For Glacial Scrape, knitted tendrils are weighed down by stones and graphite chunks. Visitors can pull it across the floor as a drawing apparatus. The resulting lines refer to the scrapes we see on stones caused by the movement of glaciers. This project was completed thanks to the support of Canada Council for the Arts.