Everyday Practice
Everyday Practice is a series of 30 images - one for each day of a month - developed during a particularly difficult period in my life, when I began thinking about how to remain present and resistant within ongoing hardship. In these staged self-performances, I position my body as a stand-in for the everyday subject, layering it with familiar objects, gestures, and emotions drawn from daily life. Each image acts as a prompt: a small, deliberate interruption within routine, accompanied by a caption that proposes an overlooked but necessary practice.
Rather than focusing on productivity or efficiency, the work turns to what is often ignored - minor, non-typical actions that accumulate meaning over time. Through repetition, these gestures become a form of knowledge-building: a way of understanding life not through singular events, but through sustained attention to the ordinary. The use of unconventional, everyday materials - objects usually taken for granted - pushes against aesthetic expectations, suggesting that transformation does not require distance from life, but a deeper engagement with it. Across the series, meaning is not fixed in any single image; it emerges gradually, shaped by duration, reflection, and the persistence of practice.
Goldfarb Gallery, York University
September 2025
Sahar Bolouki Gallery - November 2024
Vancouver Roundhouse Centre
Juried Exhibition, March 2024
1. 'Putting Hinderances out of the way' is an Everyday Practice.
2. 'Untie-ing the Knots' of life is an Everyday Practice.
3. 'Removing Layers' that don't serve you anymore, is an Everyday Practice.
4. 'Healing' your own wounds is an Everyday Practice.
5. 'To Know Better' and accordingly, to do better, is an Everyday Practice.
6. 'Protecting your Inner Peace' is an Everyday Practice.
7. 'Celebrating Femininity' is an Everyday Practice.
8. 'Finding an Emblem of Life' is an Everyday Practice.
9. 'Blooming' despite your scars, is an Everyday Practice.
10. 'Feeling Warmth' of life (even in the coldest time) is an Everyday Practice.
11. 'Dealing with Daily Contradictions' is an Everyday Practice.
12. 'Greenery Love' is an Everyday Practice.
13. 'Refinement of Vision' is an Everyday Practice.
14. 'Washing up the Dust' of everyday life is an Everyday Practice.
15. 'Festivity' is an Everyday Practice.
16. 'Staying Drunk' with everything in life is an Everyday Practice.
17. 'Movement' is an Everyday Practice.
18. 'Being Part of the Solution' is an Everyday Practice.
19. 'Embracement of the Reality' is an Everyday Practice.
20. 'Devotion' is an Everyday Practice.
21. 'Laying Bare' is an Everyday Practice.
22. 'Dating Yourself' is an Everyday Practice.
23. 'Elimination/Removal' (of things and people) is an Everyday Practice.
24. 'Modernity' is an Everyday Practice.
25. 'Steadiness' is an Everyday Practice.
26. 'Unity' is an Everyday Practice.
27. 'Persistence' is an Everyday Practice.
28. 'Resistance' is an Everyday Practice.
29. 'Immersing yourself in a Passion' that keeps you going, is an Everyday Practice.
30. 'Framing problems systematically' and solving them creatively, is an Everyday Practice.