Artifact

explores a narrative of transformation defined in three series —

Excavation,
Thread
&
Matrix.

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“THE MOST PERSONAL WORK OF ALL

I asked her about the Artifact series, and she welled up with tears.

“That was so personal.

That was my horse,” she said.

I’d love to share it here but it’s not fair to not tell it properly.

Suffice to say the luminous black and white images are the ashes of her beloved horse and stones she collected during his illness.

“When he died, I realized I had picked up the stones because they were like his eyes.

All I had left were ashes and stones so that‘s what I used.

I worked obsessively on it, then put it away for five years.”

Janet Davies - Watershed Magazine, Canada

Excavation

Every being, every action and every thought has its own beginning and its own end threading within the excavation of one’s own life path.

Thread

Collectively, the works suggest a planetary presence, echoing ancient cultures and enigmatic celestial architectures. Ambiguous in scale yet rich in tonal and textural sensuality, their stillness radiates a serene minimalism.

Matrix

The invitation is to consider an artifact closer to the human heart: a fragment once misplaced, a trace left behind, carefully concealed for protection, yet holding within it a quiet story. Buried in the folds of memory or the hidden layers of time, it waits patiently, its presence almost forgotten. Then, tenderly, it is uncovered—exposed to the light, if only briefly—revealing its existence and the intimate echoes it carries. In this act of revelation, we sense not only what was lost, but also the human impulse to preserve, to honor, and to connect across the fragile distances of time and memory. It is a meditation on the delicate interplay between concealment and disclosure, absence and presence, loss and remembrance.