Catherine Vamvakas Lay immigrated to Canada when she was 17 and found herself investigating the similarities and differences between the Greek and Canadian cultures in minute detail.


Celebrating the similarities when she discovered them was her way of negotiating common ground and grounding herself. This seeking out of the similar is what guided her back to a spiritual practice in a more purposeful way: no longer surrounded by the rich byzantine iconography and the soundscape of church bells like she was in Greece, she decided to pursue the spiritual more strategically in Canada.


Her work comes to her through dreams, intuitions, and visions, and then she finds the materials and processes to express it.


With the pomegranate sculptures she is processing the religious idea of practice and reflecting on its oppression during various points in our history. Pomegranates have long had rich associations in Greek culture and mythology – rebirth, fertility, abundance, and marriage.


Negotiating Diaspora: From the Personal to the Universal at Oeno Gallery: [ Ссылка ]

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