The inside of my head is so filled with ideas and scattered thoughts that often don’t make any sense. Maybe I am compelled to make physical objects, so that I can relieve the pressure on my brain by channeling my thoughts into something. This wearable sculpture shows the insides of my brain leaking out through my ears and through my fingertips. My very active and overwhelming brain process is represented in the colorful shapes that surround my head as a helmet. I create these external “shells” to be worn on my body, in order to better showcase my inner world, on the outside for others to see. I believe that my childhood self is my most genuine self - and with my art I am attempting to regain that childlike essence. This is why I have chosen to create this work with a craft material, plastic beads, that I once used when I was a child, but in a way that my childhood self could not, as she hadn’t learned the skills that I now have as an adult. The beads themselves are representing the atoms of creation. I take each bead or atom of creation into my hands and lovingly create a complex object with them. Each bead is important.

I like to believe that if there is some kind of spiritual creator who has created the universe, that perhaps they would have given love and care to each atom as they constructed our known world, just as I have in creating my beaded artworks.

The large abstract red beads used in this work I designed using Tinkercad.com and were printed by TopDown 3D Printing. They are symbols that my mind intuitively created that are representative of my inner world and the things in it that matter most to me.

• exhibitions/showings:

2021 “Artists in the Fallow Part ll” Brighton Block, Edmonton Alberta.

2021 “Western Canada Fashion Week” Brighton Block, Edmonton Alberta.