here within our curving spaces
[nggallery id=27] 2008 Installation: nylon monofilament, elastic thread, fans (Cygnus, 9 hours: 144 x 196 x 72 in / 360 x 480 x 180 cm) artist book: River Story. 4.5 x 7.25 in closed: 4.5 x 14.5 in open; interior pages hand-cut from laser print on acid-free paper; cover ultrachrome inkjet print on acid-free paper; bound with fluorocarbon braided fishline; 40 copies In the entry room to the exhibition, elastic threads are stretched horizontally between walls to bounce in a watery shimmer, while marking the former path of the adjacent West Don River. In the adjacent room, a nine-hour orbital [...]
Imaginary Range
[nggallery id=29] 2007 nylon monofilament, 210 x 750 x 900 cm A hand-crocheted web of fine monofilament is suspended overhead to follow imagined "thought pathways" between a room’s entries. Not visible from all vantage points, its mass (18 km of thread) testifies to distances traveled in touch and daydream while making it. De-con-structions, National Gallery of Canada /Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa (collection, 2007)
a continuous thread
[nggallery id=7] 2005 nylon monofilament, 126 x 60 x 60 in / 315 x 150 x 150 cm An arms-reach sized semi-circle of monofilament lines supports nearly ten kilometres of finer thread looped back and forth to form a human-scale space. connective tissue, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal (2005)
Untitled (invisible thread)
[nggallery id=38] 2003-2004 nylon thread, size varies Fine nylon ( "invisible") thread is looped in and out of itself into an apparent tangle and suspended in a daylit room. The room at first appears to be empty, the mass of lines being only perceptible from certain vantage points. many things were left unsaid, Gairloch Gallery of Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (2003) Avancer dans le brouillard, Musée National des beaux-arts du Quebec, QC (2004 collection: Musée National des beaux-arts du Quebec, QC, 2005