Weighted Blanket, 2021-2022. Montreal, Quebec

Weighted Blanket (overview), Box Spring, Staples, Paper, Inkjet Prints, Shells, Bones, Moose Teeth, Plaster, 2022. Documentation by Julie Ciot.

In my installation, Weighted Blanket, I want to present my relation of place within Montreal and the soothing feeling of containment in domestic space. In the process, I considered a conversation I had had with my roommates about the comfort and weight of being held under a weighted blanket. Whether physically or psychologically, between two rivers, or in my own personal space, I sought to understand this feeling of containment. With this, I began to deconstruct my surroundings and work gesturally, playing with found and altered materials and assembling them together. Ideas such as fragility and time became apparent through an archaeological and photographic approach where I created a new, temporary and ephemeral space where these objects and ideas can interact and speak with one another.

Thanks to Thomas Hagen-Veilleux for his help with this project

Weighted Blanket (detail), Box Spring, Inkjet Prints, Shell Fossil, Eroded Brick, 2022. Documentation by Julie Ciot.

Weighted Blanket (detail), Found Map, Inkjet Print, 2022. Documentation by Julie Ciot.

Weighted Blanket (detail), Box Spring, Staples, Shell Fossil, Plaster, 2022. Documentation by Julie Ciot.

Weighted Blanket (detail), Box Spring, Inkjet Print, Moose Teeth, 2022. Documentation by Julie Ciot.

Weighted Blanket (overview), Box Spring, Staples, Paper, Inkjet Prints, Shells, Bones, Moose Teeth, Plaster, Sea Shells, Shell Fossils, Twine, Eroded Brick, 2022. Documentation by Julie Ciot.

Weighted Blanket, Box Spring, Staples, Paper, Inkjet Prints, Shells, Bones, Moose Teeth, Plaster, 2021.

Weighted Blanket (detail), Box Spring, Eroded Brick, Inkjet Print, Glass, 2021.

Weighted Blanket (detail), Staples, Seashells, 2021.

Weighted Blanket (detail), Found Map, 2021.