Exhibition at Anna Leonowens Gallery, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as part of the William and Isabel Pope Painting Residency at NSCAD University.

The salt of the skin is of endurance and labour. Tears and sweat adorn our surfaces like prints on fabric. The sea seduces; the liminal space between lands have both protected and scoured the bodies traversing in pursuit of stable ground. what the swell demands is a material exploration of salt water - that which encrusts and protects, which blooms and crumbles, and disrupts the pictorial surface. This salt crust is also an artifact of disorientation - of losing sight of the coast, of queered and queering experiences of the grotesque. This disorientation is at first a sensation of disempowerment, where one loses their footing. At the same time, can the protective crust be seen as a measure of self-preservation, against a larger body of power that demands more than one can give?