projection
06.2024
fig I
Projection is a series about displacement, memory, and the ache of leaving a landscape that shaped me. Using projected nature scenes from places tied to my upbringing, the work brings images of trees, water, mountains, and open space into tension with the experience of living in downtown Toronto. The series holds nature as both memory and longing, tracing the emotional distance between where I came from and where I was trying to belong.
fig II
This project began during a time when moving from Vancouver to Toronto felt more difficult than I expected. After growing up surrounded by forests, mountains, water, and open air, the density of the city felt jarring. Concrete, construction, noise, and apartment living created a kind of visual and emotional separation from the natural spaces I had always relied on. I found myself questioning whether I had made the right decision, and whether a place could still feel like home if the landscape no longer reflected me back.
By projecting nature scenes into an interior space, the work becomes an attempt to bring one place into another. The images are not just backgrounds, but fragments of memory placed onto the present. They speak to the feeling of carrying home with you, even when you are far from it, and to the strange in-between state of wanting to grow somewhere new while still grieving the environment you left behind. Through light, projection, and the body, the series becomes a way of sitting with longing instead of trying to resolve it.
fig III
