I am interested in world building through art making. In these works, still life takes flight and collides with landscape in oil paintings featuring Ontario ecosystems. I combine inside and outside environments to build new visual stories. Here, the natural world becomes overrun with exploring figurines and vintage household textiles. These reanimated, still life nature proxies break free from their interior domestic worlds to explore the great outdoors. Like eye candy, these super sweet objects can be seen as distractions from the land depicted. Dream-like scenarios engage nostalgia for land, allow for the ways we capture the outside in our interior domestic lives, and celebrate the tenacity of the wild. Framed with a white floater frame.