Murals

This mural at IFD Technologies is complete. Using line forms that overlap and interact, this mural brings a sense of movement into the space. The details accentuate shapes created where the line forms merge and connect. 2023

The title of the piece is called Union at 08.08.2022 (6:25 pm) as that is when this shadow is cast on the site, on the date the mural was finished. The mural becomes a map that orientates the artwork to the sun and its relationship to the building. The mural is a colour field painting exploring movement, transparency, and opaque layers shifting across a plane.
Next year at this exact date we can check how the spot has changed in relation to the sun using the surrounding architecture.

Metamorphosis: Artists Tristesse Seeliger + Karen Yurkovich for Lehigh Hanson and The City of Richmond June 2021

Plants change and transform into land, and the territory gives back to nature. Interconnected and woven, this mural makes visual these essential cycles. This mural honours the cycles of nature, illustrating the relationship of the territory to the biodiversity it supports and the biodiversity that feeds the land.

We chose three plants that are native to BC and Mitchell Island, the Lyngbye’s Sedge, Typha latifolia, and Juncus Balticus, to map this relationship. The form reflects the theme and allows the audience to read the cyclical story regardless of which direction you approach it.

Make Art While Apart - Vancouver Mural Festival 2020

Ultimately, it is in our vulnerability that we must depend. R. M. Rilke

I collaborated with Karen Yurkovich to combine our two murals for the Vancouver Mural Festivals COVID initiative Make Art While Apart. My mural looks at the unknown territory we are in at this moment with the COVID 19 crisis. By referencing maps and landscape I wonder how humanity might reimagine our connectedness. What do borders mean when we are all in this together?

Territory 65 for Emily Carr University of Art and Design 2019

The science of cartography is dismantled and reassembled, using geometry, into new territories creating opportunities to explore the poetry in the data. By juxtaposing the hard edges of the tiles with the organic markings of the maps the work invites a deeper study of the networks that connect us. Logic meets chance allowing us to study, understand, and feel the infinite.

Map Collage
10' X 10.5' 
2019

Vancouver Mural Festival 2017 - The Infinite Line

The tight curvature of a circle relaxes as it gets bigger, its centre moving away from the arc. As that centre pushes towards infinity, the arc magically straightens out into a line.

Lululemon window 2015 - Tristesse Seeliger collaborated with Lululemon Lab in Vancouver to create a winter window installation. The theme for Lululemon Lab was to highlight their commitment to recycling and sustainable practices by shifting patterns and perspectives. As a response Tristesse made a mountain of Necker cubes collaged from the used scrap papers directly from their lab. The final piece was called Shifting Patterns / Shifting Perspectives.