CURRENT WORK
The inclusion of cod leather is central to the work’s meaning. This is not representation but incorporation: the actual substance of what sustained the community, what drew people to the water before dawn, what filled the stages and flakes, what connected this small harbour to markets across the Atlantic. By working with leather from Petty Harbour cod, the piece holds within it the physical legacy of the fishery—texture, scent, the particular character of these waters.
KEEPING CONNECTED 2025
This work is an act of remembrance. It acknowledges the knowledge, skill, and deep environmental relationship embodied in traditional fishing culture. It recognizes that a place is made not just of landscape but of practice, of the accumulated gestures of working lives. In bringing together the historical image with materials from the contemporary fishery, I attempt to honour both continuity and change—to hold space for what has been lost and what endures.
Through these humble materials—cloth, leather, thread—I offer respect to Petty Harbour and to the fishing heritage that has shaped not just this harbour, but an entire way of understanding our place within the natural world.
