NOODIN STUDIO

I paint in acrylic and digitally, and I build work in digital print, mixed media lightboxes, murals, animation, interactive projection, and augmented reality. Most projects layer more than one medium. A mural can carry an AR activation. A projection can respond to the people standing in front of it.

Hyper Woodland is the term I coined for work that expands Woodland style with ancestral knowledge, augmented reality, and interactive projection. Woodland painting has always shown the spirit world beside the everyday one. Hyper Woodland uses new tools to keep that view open, on walls, on screens, and in the space around you.

Scan the QR code at the installation or on the artwork with your phone's camera. The AR layer opens in your browser, no app required. Hold the phone up and the work lifts into the space around you. The phone becomes a lens for seeing one world laid over another.

The Woodland School is a lineage of Anishinaabe painting begun by Norval Morrisseau, known for bold line, x-ray views, and images of relatives and presences from the spirit world beside the everyday one. I paint in that lineage and extend it with AR, projection, and code.

A sensor reads the movement of people in front of the projected artwork and feeds it into the image in real time. Viewers enter the work, and their movement reveals layers inside it. I build these systems in TouchDesigner. Sacred Tags at Nuit Blanche Toronto used a Kinect sensor to turn viewers into star people, pictographs, and flames.

The lightboxes are mixed media works that layer digital prints and painted elements over a light source. The light holds the image from behind, and the work sits between painting and screen.