What is {DE}Fragmented?
{De}Fragmented is an installation I’ve been slowly building as a reflection on cultural reclamation, exploring how memory, language, and story find new form over time, and in new places.
Each time the work travels, it reassembles differently. Sculptural walls become pathways. Openings become windows. Digital layers including AR, sound, and projection emerge quietly within the structure, holding stories in collaboration with other artists.
Created with support from the
@fpcc.ca , this piece exists within a larger movement of rediscovery and renewal. A gentle defragmenting. A returning.
The relief shapes carved into the walls reference Salish form. QR markers activate stories that surface in these openings, like knowledge reappearing in spaces where something once felt missing.
As sunlight moves across the installation, shadows stretch and shift. Time becomes visible.
When all the structural elements are brought together, they form the face of an eagle. Throughout the space, the pieces remain dispersed, like memory held in different corners of the mind. Woven patterns thread the walls together, connecting the fragments like a blanket still in progress.
Like the eagle, this installation becomes a vessel, a messenger carrying stories of finding place, belonging, roots, and ourselves in a time that often feels anything but.
This is only the beginning. {DE}Fragmented is a living work. I am seeking future placements, building relationships with the Nations whose territories it visits, and opening the space to collaboration. If you are an immersive AR or projection artist, sound artist, poet, storyteller, or someone who feels this work belongs in your gallery, event, or gathering space, I would truly welcome the conversation.
Let’s keep building bridges together. 🦅❤️
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