Year: 2022
Dimensions: 16’ x 16’ x 10’
Medium/Technique: Powder Coated Hand Bent Wire
**Produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
Bloom translates the mathematical roulette curves of Spirograph toys into sculptural wire lines that combine the playful gesture of drawing toys with the radial patterns found in textile structures like crochet rings and tatting. I am drawn to wire for its lightness, the shadows it casts, and its capacity to exist as both line and form. This interest in mathematical patterning embedded within textile traditions results in a hanging, mobile work where each circular form is individually shaped and suspended, creating a dense collection of fine lines arranged in the gallery ceiling.
The installation presents a floating cloud of colour in bright blues, pinks, and purples—a vivid atmosphere of saturated lines that suggests simultaneously a galaxy, a bouquet of flowers, and a surreal cloudscape. Viewers are invited to move around and beneath the work, experiencing how it shifts subtly with air currents and transforms from different vantage points.
This work has been included in the following exhibitions:
Exhibition: Bright Little Day Stars at The Columbia Museum of Art
Exhibition: Bloom at The Lake of the Woods Museum (links to be added)
Exhibition: Wanderings and Traces at Cambridge Galleries (links to be added)
