Self-Portrait no.10 from MRI, 2019, inkjet print, 56 x 84 cm
Vitruvian Me, 2008, inkjet print (created from over 50 flatbed scans), 89 x 81 cm Ottawa Art Gallery Collection
Self-Portrait no.1 from MRI, 2008, inkjet print, 208 x 104 cm, Global Affairs Canada Art Collection
Self-Portrait no.2 from MRI, 2008, 208 x 104 cm, Global Affairs Canada Art Collection
Installation View, Solo Exhibition at the Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, 2014
Self-Portrait no.3 from MRI, 2008, inkjet print, 208 x 104 cm, Ottawa Art Gallery Collection
Self-Portrait 4no. from MRI, 2008, inkjet print, 66 x 63 cm
Self-Portrait no.5 from MRI, 2008, inkjet print, 110 x 80 cm, Public Art Collection of the City of Ottawa
Self-Portrait no.6 from MRI, 2008, inkjet print, 66 x 63 cm, Ottawa Art Gallery Art Collection
Self-Portrait no.7 from MRI, 2008, inkjet print, 61 cm x 102 cm
Self-Portrait no.8 from MRI, 2008, inkjet print, 61 x 102 cm, Global Affairs Canada Art Collection
Study 1, 2008, Inkjet print, 61 x 102 cm, Ottawa Art Gallery Art Collection
Study 3, 2008, inkjet print, 23 x 61 cm
Study 2, 2008, inkjet print, 23 cm x 61 cm
Self-Examination, 2010, inkjet print, 51 x 66 cm
Self-Portrait with Tundra, 2010, inkjet print , 140 x 77 cm
The Body Ineffable (Les maux non-dits)
The Body Ineffable is a series of self-portraits created using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of my body. The MRI show thin layers of organs inside the body that I combine to reconstitute the idea of a living body, not just an anatomical one. I also use OsiriX, a medical software program for viewing three-dimensional MRIs. I am careful to humanize and personalize these images, which have a direct connection to trauma, suffering and death.
One of the pieces in this series, Vitruvian Me, is a pictorial composite of numerous scans of my body taken with a flatbed scanner that makes reference to Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man (1490). Acting as both the observer and the observed, I attempt to identify what the images can tell me about myself, and questions their use and impact on our overall understanding of the body and its experience