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Tashya Orasi & Sandra Johnstone

Spectral Diffractions
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Artist's Statement

Spectral Diffractions emerged from a spontaneous collaboration between the artists, and then with AI image generation, in Nanaimo BC in 2022. This work alerts us to Rose’s (2017) “shimmer” in chance encounters, and encourages us to attend to the ways that a brilliant moment shared with others can continue to move though the world. To us, as our first in-person encounter after intitially starting doctoral studies, this event of art creation was our own joyful and brilliant moment - one that came from our collaboration as well as our engagement with the ghosts of the past. 
Tashya Orasi
Tashya is an arts integrated PhD Candidate and lecturer in the Faculty Education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, ON. Her work is informed by her background as an educator, public sector administrator and love of colour.  The intersections of leadership, creativity, performance, engagement, and joy tend to permeate her arts-integrated research practice. 

Sandra Johnstone
Sandra’s artwork is influenced by geological materials and processes, drawing from her MSc in Earth Science and more than a decade as a geoscience educator. Sandra is currently a PhD student in Educational Studies, researching the social worlds of geoscience education.

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