Bus Stop, Oil on panel 8.5 x 10.5 in/22 x 27 cm 2017

Bus Stop, Oil on panel 8.5 x 10.5 in/22 x 27 cm 2017

Summer of Blood, Acrylic, paper, sinew on canvas 24 x 24 in/61 x 61 cm 2016.

Summer of Blood, Acrylic, paper, sinew on canvas 24 x 24 in/61 x 61 cm 2016.

I was shaken awake by the murders in the Pulse Nightclub early that June. All summer the news was been full of bombings, shootings, murders. I made this work, tallying the lives taken. It came from a sense of gut-wrenching shock and horror. The paper stitched to the canvas is my baggage tag from Anaturk airport to Montreal, earlier that month.