The studio for the past two years has been going exceptionally well.

Through some help from my friends and the funding from the Ontario Arts Council’s Career Catalyst Grant, I’ve been able to build movable walls and acquire a colour-accurate monitor and mobile stand. This set-up has been phenomenal for studio visits as I reconfigure the space depending on my needs. Through the monitor and mobile TV stand, I’ve been able to display my video works, video editing-process, and digital research along with physical sculptures and wall works. The scale of the screen really gives a materiality and presence to screen-based works that would otherwise be blandly viewed on a small computer screen or phone.

A very big thank you and my acknowledgment to the Ontario Arts Council for empowering my studio, which in the past two-ish years has held multiple successful studio visits with writers and curators. Granting me exhibition opportunities and awards. I think a grant like the career catalyst is a perfect fit for emerging artist because it sets an artist up the fundamental tools that they request. It really gets the ball rolling and helps artists work in Ontario which is already a hard thing to do given the cost of living.