OSSA

2011

Ossa draws on the vanitas tradition, assembling images of animal remains encountered in studio and outdoor environments. Many of the carcasses were collected or gifted by other artists, forming a distributed archive of death, exchange, and material curiosity. Expanded through various formats, including photographic prints, silk, stitched textile, and etched aluminum, the work explores accumulation and decay, tracing the transformation of biological material beyond the living body. The works have been shown across Canada, at the Art Gallery of Guelph, Gallery 101 (Ottawa), for the Dooryard Arts Festival, and are held in numerous private collections.

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Materials: digital photographs printed on archival photo paper and silk; laser-etched anodized aluminum; stitched phototextile, beeswax.

Dimensions:10" × 10" (photo works); 57" × 41" (phototextile wall hanging).