The Mayday Project

In May of 2023, I was part of a cohort of 14 international recipients who were awarded a 2 week residency entitled "Once Upon Water" at the Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts on Toronto Island in Canada. All artists were required to bring the theme of water into their creations. 

I was accepted as a writer and explored water through poetry, photography, self-portraits and jewelry.

Mayday is an internationally recognized radio word to signal distress and The Mayday Project is an expression of my anxiety about human impacts on water, our undeniable dependence upon it and our pervasive lack of connection with it. Water is taken for granted, polluted, causing illness, becoming uninhabitable for marine life and more, yet we as humans are slow to try to remedy any of these issues.

The theme of the paper boat signifies that while we are still afloat, we are afloat in a very vulnerable, precarious and temporary way.