​this is me
Zoe Welch

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and zoetrope is some of my work

zoetrope is a photo-based project with which, more and more, I look at perception & memory, and what informs one's take on place, self, and the making of meaning.

I've long been interested in language, textual and visual - both are natural, intuitive, and instinctual for me.  So, what I make, when I do, is what comes to me most often in some form between word and image, untethered, touching, tandem.  That's how this happens - hokey as it sounds.

I hope you find something that touches you here; you'll draw your own conclusions. That's what I'm endeavouring to do. What else can any of us do?

background

Some of my work is published, including:

• mon père, a poem and photograph in the photography magazine, Ciel Variable, no 17, automne 1991
• à couper le souffle, a poem, in La revue des animaux, décembre 1993, no 5, published by L'oie de cravan
• that 16mm film, landing - le film pour Loïc, came out in 1997 and enjoyed some exposure on the independent and art house circuit, and was kindly reviewed in Séquences: la revue de cinéma, no 195, 1998, in a piece about short films and love (flip to p. 11) by Élie Castiel.
• my mother's wedding, a contributing photo and written piece in the 2014 book Women in Clothes edited by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton, and published by Blue Rider Press, Penguin UK and S. Fischer Verlage
• Slocan Skipping Stones. 8' x 2' photomural. City Panorama public art exhibition project, King County Metro and Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA. Installation takes place spring 2016-17 in bus shelters across King County, Washington (my exact location TBC). The mural will be displayed for one year. The project is funded by 4Culture.

PS:
​In an in-between time, I had a clothing design company, lib designs, for a few years, and had a store on the edge of Vancouver's Chinatown for a year too.
Both are now defunct.
But it was really fun, and I loved it all.