I am a designer, artist, & researcher based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke.
I hold a BFA from Emily Carr University, where I specialized in Communication Design & Illustration. Toward the end of my degree, I began to investigate embodied materiality & relationality within my practice.
Recent works facilitate a dialogue between my Bulgarian origin & Canadian upbringing, expressed through the language of sentimental objects. To preserve ancestral craft techniques without a learning source, I rebuild patterns from salvaged online sources & bring them into tangible space. While designing textile vectors, I manually pixelate to enact the motions of repetitive stitching.
I have been observing graphic design as a weaver, to find mindful & sustained labours in accelerated digital spaces. To be aware of the details, how they will be organized, & how they relate with each other. Through tactile value & adaptive technologies, my practice has become a way to consider contrasts not as opposition, but a framework of balance.
Currently, I am the Laser Engraving Coordinator at Atelier Circulaire where I collaborate with studio members, local artists, & organizations to realize their projects. In this role, accessible knowledge & dissemination are heavily stressed, as well as research to advance the laser engraving technique with a focus on printmaking. Otherwise, I am probably collecting breadclips & clovers [with fixations subject to change]. Take care!
TAKE A SEAT
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