and we created them in our own image breaks down the layers of perception by decoding the anthropomorphization of animals through fantasy portraiture, playing with forms associated with nostalgia, memory, and representation.
For many, family pets remain a bridge to nature. However, because of our impulse to want to control and manipulate nature, we have begun to denaturalize this connection, progressively removing from it what it originally reminded us of, and in turn imposing onto it new cultural codes and criteria. Ultimately, and we created them in our own image plays with the idea of how far are we willing to go to make pets, and by extension nature, into an image of ourselves?
Select exhibitions include: CONTACT Photography Festival (Canada)