- Portraits of Their Compendium Tithe, 2016. Mixed Media -
“A lot can be said about a person through the items that they leave behind: Where someone has been, how they got there, why they went, what they did, or even with whom. These collections are portraits of the people who were tasked with paying attention to the items that they interacted with as they went about their days. The items reference their movement through time and their experiences as an individual. The resulting complications render the participants and their habits, memories and behaviours through the debris of their lives.
Being from north-western Ontario, I grew up immersed in a culture not my own, which had a significant impact on my upbringing; due to this interrelation I’ve found it difficult to orient myself and my practice has therefore developed to focus around issues of displacement, preservation and personal and societal identity. My pieces aim to isolate and accentuate key abstractions related to each material that I utilize in my works. Through a focus on disregarded materials of the modern world, my work discusses resolved issues of consumerism and globalization in Canada and the effects on the people within.”
- Kendra Carlson, 2016
Im finally getting around to posting these images from my final piece from last years Grad Show.
