My first Corn Maze piece was created in response to the challenge of making work that addresses Ontario's Greenbelt, an area of permanently protected green space, farmland, vibrant communities, forests, wetlands, and watersheds surrounding the greater Toronto area.

Corn Maze is a representation of an aerial view of a corn maze made out of the corn silk of Ontario-grown corn. Corn mazes, like berry picking, are attractions commonly linked to agritourism or “agritainment.” As a city-dweller, my experiences of the Greenbelt growing up were limited to such forms of contact with rural life. Similarly, as an adult my connection to rural Ontario is almost entirely limited to my consumption of locally grown produce.

Corn Maze pokes fun at my unabashedly urban relationship with Ontario’s countryside.