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  • WORK
    • Ear to ocean
    • CAMBER
    • Drift
    • Glint
    • Night Shapes
    • Tafoni Nutkana 2021
    • Cetus
    • Coral Bones Black Water 2020
    • Wash Up 2020
    • Mountain Water 2020
    • Pitch Dark 2019
    • Dark Light 2018
    • Ordinary Light 2017
    • Four Corners 2015
    • Four Corners, AHVA 2016
    • Pinna (bridge) 2017
    • Pinna 2015
    • Zephyr 2014 Light Ricochets 2014
    • Water study 2014
    • Haiku 2013
    • Other >
      • Drawings for light
      • Ins and Outs
      • Memory of trees 2019
      • Seaweed study 2017
      • Gossamer 2014
      • Weavings 2014
      • Lift 2013
      • Halo Cobalt teal 2013
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Drift, 2022
​Charred driftwood

Drift traces the places I frequented between the summers 2021 and 2022. When I came across a wave-tossed and polished piece of charcoal glistening in the sun and considered the many washed up logs on the beach and their multiple lives, this speck of charred wood spoke to me of transformations. Ironically I was back in the city during the winter for a brief period of time and I gathered some driftwood in waters around Vancouver. I hauled them all the way up to Cortes. I like thinking about the many lives held within a material or object such as here the forest, the clearcut, logs at sea, the travelling routes. I chiselled and polished the form down to a roundish shape and charred it, another evocation of transformation as well as the forest fires. I polished it with cedar oil in hope to create a sheen to reflect light. Drift is an amalgamation of moving light, woody matter and the porous in-between space of shape shifting.

© Ebony Rose​