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Soka’s project Family Roots, traces the history of her mixed-race heritage. She explores the continuing story of her family and selfhood through place, emotion, and memory.

This project was made possible through Vibe Art’s Desire Lines Program.

Raptors 905 Games

Photographed the last two homes games of the Raptors 905 23-24 season on March 27th and 29th. To look at more images from the event click the button below.

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Westbury

The Westbury is a series that follows residents who live in a long-term care home in Etobicoke, Ontario. The work combines mixed-media to create an image-wrapped dollhouse that is generic in design and it is contrasted with environmental portraits of the residents to show their living space. The dollhouse contains 3D prints of the residents as well as objects to represent the way society perceives their home through repetition, while the photographs showcase what their space truly looks like. Recently in Canada, there has been a demand for long-term care homes due to the ageing population and disability. The demand for these homes has resulted in a lack of creativity in the design of these places. The buildings end up mimicking hotel and motel structures and eventually causing the communities living within these buildings to fade into our neighborhoods. The repetition in design allows us to disregard these communities. This can also, be a cue of society’s discomfort with age. As many of the connotations of long-term care homes are negative due to social basis against disability and age. However, the residents within these homes break free from these connotations by creating a place of their own. This allows them to control their own representation through their mementos and possessions allowing viewers to understand an individual through their space.

Susan

Julia

Jessie

Helen

Sherry

Jack and Bernice

Subbrea

Jenni

Debbie

Shirley

Soka Lazara

lens-based artist & facilitator

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