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)
my Darling
[nggallery id=26] 2006 installation: nylon and elastic thread, plastic magnifying lenses, acetate, plasticene, water artist book: 5 7/8 x 11 in closed: 22 7/8 x 11 open; 18 pages plus wrap-around cover. Hand-trimmed, zig-zag fold, ultrachrome inkjet print on acid-free bond; acid-free glue; single silicone elastic thread; 50 copies Clear elastic threads hang ceiling to floor and slip around the body as one passes between them. Lenses suspended overhead refract sunlight in wandering spots, on cloudy days spot-illuminating the shadows. Pools of water seem to grow out of the floor, reflecting more light. Flickering lights turn out to be strips [...]
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)
there’s a place on my back that isn’t there
[nggallery id=25] 2005 nylon stretch cord, steel cables, plywood and steel mounting structure: 126 x 60 x 84 in / 315 x 150 x 210 cm Elastic cord is woven between steel cables, creating a space large enough for a person to enter and be supported, leaning into the webbed threads. The cables trace a “constellation” of skin on the artist's back. [See Out here in space, 2005.] connective tissue, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal (2005) Search for Parallax (based on a constellation related to gallery site), Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto (2008)