After completing my studies at Vancouver Film School, I returned to the rural idyll of Hornby Island. Here, I had the luxury of silence to begin to process the anger I had felt inside after witnessing the great divide of human experience. I began to visually articulate all that I had lived through, seen and felt in my time away.I had taken photographs while living in the Downtown Eastside which I had the time to study and reflect upon. I wanted to do something more than have them just be a collection of pictures stored in a box.. I felt the people living that experience needed to be seen and heard in a way that wasn't appropriating their pain. I scanned the photos into the computer along with a body of abstracted paintings I had also done in that time. The act of creating them into a digital collage image helped me to process my experience and my reaction to seeing so many people and situations where there was no control.
