Crawling out of limbo, were the first words I wrote in my diary while sitting on the plane–with a one-way ticket– to Africa. Those words fittingly became the title of my first art exhibition. My trip to Africa started in Morocco and ended in Zimbabwe.

On my return home to Canada a year later, I found myself lost and wanting to return to my adventurous self, in Africa. My way of dealing this was to project my African slides onto various locations in my Ottawa apartment, to create environment that was ‘Africa’ in the security of my home.

After a while I begin to photograph these projections and realized that what I was creating was a borderless environment for myself and these composite photographs that merged two realities of ‘place’ into one. Thus, internalizing a place, that was no longer present, into the present, creating a coalescence of time, space, people and locations.

Exhibition:
Crawling Out of Limbo, Galerie SAW Video, Ottawa, ON (two person show with L. Sujir) 1992

Review:
Surpassing The Dimension Of Video, The Charlton, Nichole McGill, 27 Aug, 1992