Wht-trSH: Continuing to investigate UN/making as a creative act to help model and elicit acts of care and repair within the visual arts, this project investigates how walking can rise above methods of exploration, mapping, colonization, and ecological issues of tourism. An ongoing project, I scan and sift through sandy shorelines to help ensure access to clean water and safe swimming. Inspired by a childhood spent on Ontario beaches and the history of The Five White Gifts (flour, sugar, lard, salt, and dairy); non-traditional food items given to Indigenous communities during the formation of reserves and reservations that continue to contribute to major health issues such as high blood pressure and diabetes, this performative project acknowledges how white plastics and other industrial waste also colonize bodies as they make it into streams, rivers, lakes, and inland water tables.  Now the keeper of that retrieved and sorted, each walk produces a museological display, that when inside the walls of the white cube, problematizes mass production and consumption, modes of disposal and collecting, as well as points to the early minimalist work White on White, 1912, by Kazimir Malevich. Check out the Events page for upcoming beach walks near you or reach out to bring this interactive project to your community and gallery.