Checkerboards with game pieces. Xs and Os and tic-tac-toes with crosshairs and scope visions. Organized in grids, these mixed media works depict, for example, air force insignias, with paper-based and digital map images – many with military pedigree and references.

The 35 watercolour images in Star Power (31 Douglas Drive) represent 35 alphabetically arranged air force insignias/roundels that incorporate the image of the star to identify the nationality of military aircraft. Symbolically patrolling the ‘heavens’ to assert control of the upper ground, they perpetually reminded us how we are potential targets of this airborne weaponry.

By cross-assembling two street-guide books, a single, larger map of the Halifax Regional Municipality was created for DND and Me. Only squares that revealed sites owned by the Department of National Defense or their suppliers were included in the mapped construction. Many military lands, revealed in scope-like circular apertures, were already indicated on the map.