A response to what is a seed dialogue with Diane.

a chance to walk the banks of the nile senses enlivened – a chance to feel into what my ancestors may have felt

After Nanay’s Flesh An excerpt of a zine of Felt Pen Art and Words honouring Matriarchs, my Nanay (mother) for the love, life, courage and sacrifices she was able to provide for me and my siblings to have a better chance at life. Full zine will be officially released August 7th, 2025, her Birthday.

Created during the Arrivals’ Seedpool; Moving Together Arriving Together residency at Prismatic Arts Festival 2023 in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Inspired by Anju’s sewing machine…

Time for confession

This video is of a collaboration between Rosemary Georgeson, Jonathan Langdon and Julie Tamiko Manning that took place in September 2023, at The Final Steps, a monument on a pier in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, where each have ancestors that crossed this threshold between land and water.

Travelling between two worlds. The Sea, it’s history and my ability to stay the course.

Self-portrait in charcoal with deconstructed essay

mud flats and their cracks remind me of our skin and the groves of our beingness

A short video reflection on the shoreline in Nova Scotia.

Wire bent into a spiral with handmade braids. Some of the wire and pink braids have been repurposed from River Stories/ Ocean Song installment. Remembering where I have come from to radically liberate myself.

A visual poem inspired by Julie’s invitation to honour the broken.

I felt compelled to be in the forest, my grand mother and great grand mother on my mother’s side speaking to me. Through my eyes, I felt that they were telling me to protect love and the lonely. 

This is a series of still images, from video footage taken by Gwen Armstrong, fellow participant in the Arrivals Co-Lab Residency. Fresh into her ALP work, a young Jude Wong found herself wandering through Vancouver’s China Town, and met with her Father at the Wong Benevolent Society.

A Critical fabulation to revisit a story we tell haitian children to scare them. A story of mercy. A risk to be taken in kreyol only.

where to start? an incremental step…attuning

Excerpt from solo performance I created with ALP sourced material and resilience.