Installation at:
Walnut Contemporary  - Toronto - 2017
The Art Emporium - Port Hope - 2018

At the bottom of my grandmother’s garden grew a tall hedge. It flanked a lawn studded with dandelions which I loved to pick. One day, while I was busy gathering, I glanced up. Something glittered in the leaves.  It looked like an oval of blue glass.  I parted the branches and came nose to nose with the largest doll I had ever seen.  She was beautiful.

So I scrambled up to look more closely.  The hedge was too thick to pull her through.  I went to the end and found her standing in front of a rough wooden fence.  Her skin was canvas pale.  Scratches raked her torso.

I carried her home and began to collect pieces of fabric to clothe her.  I stitched costumes of linen silk and lace.

I shared Beauty with no one. Soon I had no friends.  Beauty had taken over my world.  She became larger than life .

One rainy morning I shall never forget.

I crept from my bedroom to the back porch where usually she slept on a large pillow.  She wasn’t there.  Only a pile of her clothes.

I never found out who took her.  She may have simply needed to leave me.