I was born and raised in St. James Town (Toronto, Canada), one of the densest high-rise communities in North America. It is an offshoot of Towers in the Park, a model of modern dwellings invented by Le Corbusier. With thoughts of utopia, it was meant to accommodate large populations with little room else for infrastructure and ornamentation. Despite its shortcomings, St. James Town is now one of the most ethnically rich neighborhoods in Canada and is sometimes known as “the world within a block.”

Somewhere between these concrete enclosures and lived space, between drywall and parquet floor tiles, are the stories of cultural survival that centers my practice. Here, I look to process, the unfixed, the tangential, and beyond—to wander peripherally into the margins and towards expansive narratives.