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aka tiny lessons from migrant weeds
𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ་༘࿐
research practice by @vika___sharma

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𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 on view for just one more week at @artmuseumuoft .ᐟ

this work is a collaborative installation with Meech Boakye @ghostyboi, taking on the form of weathered construction waste and embedding eroded brick, tile, and glass fragments collected on the Lake Ontario shoreline. The work was largely made up of discarded and weedy materials, including paper pulp bricks I made from foraged stalks of “invasive” Phragmites australis.

Meech and I began this work through conversations along the Spit and continued our collaboration over many many phone calls across provinces and states. It’s been fun to put this all together and share it with you. We invite you to sit, observe, and touch the paper pulp and soap objects displayed on the round table as they slowly change over the duration of this exhibition.

Thank you Chloe and Meech for bringing me into this project! An additional thank you to the Art Museum staff for your support and to my fabrication assistant Maddie Gnam @flower__hag

ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ🦢་༘࿐

This work is a part of 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣 curated by Chloe Gordon-Chow @chloegchow. This exhibition, running from May 7 to August 1, 2026, traces how our relationships to land, material, and community are sustained within disturbed ecologies and conditions of precarity.

Photos by LF Documentation, courtesy of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto

We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario. by @fibre_graft

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3 months ago

Please join us on Friday, July 17th from 6pm to 8pm at the Plumb! ࿐໋

Facilitated by @flower__hag and @fibre_graft, SOWSEW invites you to an evening of sewing and working with “invasive” plant materials, specifically common reed (Phragmites australis), a weedy, migrant grass species found throughout Ontario.

With an emphasis on material exploration, experimentation, and play, we will be collectively working with phragmites stalks, making paper, and exploring stitching together pieces of phragmites and mulberry paper, using traditional patchwork (Jogakbo) techniques.

This workshop is open to all experience levels and is beginner friendly. Tickets are by donation and event registration link in bio. All ticket proceeds go to The People Stand with Gaza International Fundraiser.

Poster by @fibre_graft by @fibre_graft

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photos taken during my brief time as an artist-in-residence with @washiplus at Kashiki Seishi, a washi paper mill located in Kochi, along the Niyodo river.

So grateful to Ayumi for hosting me and generously sharing about her practice and her family's work which has been ongoing for seven generations (!!) In my short time there, I got an introduction to kozo processing + washi preparation and learned about Kashiki Seishi's ongoing relationship with local farmers. So incredible to see how much labour, care, and generational knowledge, goes into these paper-making processes.

so lovely to meet and learn from so many wonderful folks during my short time in Kochi!!! A big thank you to Ayumi + Masumi, Elena, and Lucy for all your support and encouragement!!

@ayumi5127
@washiplus
@kashikiseishi taken in Kōchi Prefecture by @fibre_graft

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6 months ago

(bush warbler hums in the background)

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photos taken during my brief time as an artist-in-residence with @washiplus at Kashiki Seishi, a washi paper mill located in Kochi, along the Niyodo river.

So grateful to Ayumi for hosting me and generously sharing about her practice and her family's work which has been ongoing for seven generations (!!) In my short time there, I got an introduction to kozo processing + washi preparation and learned about Kashiki Seishi's ongoing relationship with local farmers. So incredible to see how much labour, care, and generational knowledge, goes into these paper-making processes.

so lovely to meet and learn from so many wonderful folks during my short time in Kochi!!! A big thank you to Ayumi + Masumi, Elena, and Lucy for all your support and encouragement!!

@ayumi5127
@washiplus
@kashikiseishi taken in Kōchi Prefecture by @fibre_graft

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6 months ago

Excited to share my collaborative work with @ghostyboi with you all! 𝐿𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒪𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓃 curated by @chloegchow is now open at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at @artmuseumuoft till August 1st.

Here's a small preview of the work + some of my making process 𖦹 ಄ ꩜

Poster by @klassic_kool_shoppe by @fibre_graft

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5 months ago

snippets of my essay + drawings in @scaffoldjournal

Anatomy of a Fluid Landscape,
Scaffold Journal Vol 2: Drafting Liminalities, University of Toronto, Toronto, 2025. by @fibre_graft

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7 months ago

Here is a little moment from our show, 𝘛𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬, and the afterwards from our booklet, written by Chloe Gordon Chow:

“It’s a life practice to navigate how to sustain a material practice amidst systems of extraction and harm. There are tensions inherent to this work. It’s a spiral tunnelling deeper into the ground. How do we work with what we’ve got? And notice that there’s already so much here?”

✳️Thank you to all who have supported us, passed through the space, and came with helping hands ✳️

Exhibited at @the_plumb in Tkaronto, 07.25.25 - 08.17.25
We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

Artists: Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez, Emi Takahashi, Bhavika Sharma
Curator: Emerald 邹佑
Writer: Chloe Gordon Chow
Documentation: Em Moor, Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez, Jamie Latimer

1 - Collage of TMC exhibition
2 - Email booklet foreward
3/4 - Drying Mechanism [Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez]
5/6 - Prototype Speakers [Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez]
7/8 - DSV Glyphs [Emi Takahashi]
9/10 - DM Mimicry [Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez]
11 - Dog-strangling vine plant
12/13 - Phragmites patchwork [Bhavika Sharma]
14 - Weedy swirl [Bhavika Sharma]
15 - Phragmite plant
16 - Processing session w/ invited speakers
17 - Paper Labs 2.0
18 - Email booklet cover [designed by Emi Takahashi]
19 - Mound of dried DSV

Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council @ontarioartscouncil and @maritstiles for supporting this project! taken in the plumb by @fibre_graft

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a year ago

Tunnel Mound Comeback showcases work that stems from “invasive” plant species. Each artist addresses a form of relationship towards the plant material they work with.

We place quotation marks on the word “invasive” as a way for us to leave room to think about how this word informs our relationship to these plants, and the ways we use this word outside of a plant context.

Elena Kirby (Tkaronto), Masumi Rodriguez (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal) and Emi Takahashi (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal) create work surrounding the plant known as dog-strangling vine. In conversation with the show, artist Bhavika Sharma (Tkaronto) takes on the plumb bar using a weedy/migrant plant known as phragmites.

In collaboration with Toronto Nature Stewards @torontonaturestewards

Text by Chloe Gordon-Chow @chloegchow
Curated by Emerald @em_thepainter

𖦹𖦹𖦹

July 25 - August 17, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, July 25th, 6-10PM

@the_plumb
1655 Dufferin St Basement
Toronto, ON

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday 4PM-7PM
Saturday/Sunday 2PM-5PM

Poster Design: Emi Takahashi taken in the plumb by @fibre_graft

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a year ago

ⓟⓐⓣⓒⓗ / ⓦⓞⓡⓚ

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Phragmites paper made from stalk fibres

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A patchwork of phragmites papers sewn and mounted onto a curved bar

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Phragmites paper made from leaf fibres

Photo documentation by Em Moor, Elena Kirby, Masumi Rodriguez, and Bhavika Sharma.

Special thanks to Melody Lu and Maddie Gnam for your knowledge and support! by @fibre_graft

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a year ago

Documentation from two Phragmites australis processing sessions this summer at the Plumb.

A big thank you to everyone who attended, and a special thank you to Elena Kirby and Masumi Rodriguez for your knowledge and support!

more info on fibregraft.com/plumb by @fibre_graft

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an essay I wrote on paper-making and map-making for an exhibition publication following a show curated by Shalaka Jhadav. Grateful to be alongside these artists and writers!!

"Sprawl: Towards a Weedy, Rhizomatic Mapping of Landscapes." in To Broadcast is to Scatter. School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, 2025. by @fibre_graft

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10 months ago

𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓭𝔂 𝓽𝓮𝓬𝓱𝓷𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓰𝓲𝓮𝓼

Talk by Bhavika Sharma and Dog-strangling vine (DSV) processing session facilitated by Elena Kirby and Masumi Rodriguez at the Plumb.

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a person pointing at an Illustration by Bhavika

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A group of people seated around a circular DSV drying mechanism structure made by Elena and Masumi while holding drawings made by Bhavika

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Close-up images of DSV processing during the talk documented by Jordan Giang

Thank you to everyone who attended this talk and thank you Elena and Masumi for having me there ｡𖦹°‧⭑.ᐟ by @fibre_graft

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