thicc pick Michaela BridgemohanKelowna, BC Size 96" x 36" x 2.5" Medium black walnut, wenge and pine wood “thicc pick” is a sculptural piece that I work with performatively by combing various sites of land that I have a connection to. I consider the Afro-pick as a relational site of fondness but also an evocative figure connected to the Afro-diaspora. As you move your gaze from the top of its crescent head to the bottom of the tines, they become teeth. The one tine made of wenge is an ode to the gap, snaggle, and crooked teeth. The arch of the tines is to insinuate an open mouth—a sort of ingestion when you approach the work. thicc pick Michaela BridgemohanKelowna, BC About the artist About the artist Michaela BridgemohanKelowna, BC Michaela Bridgemohan is an interdisciplinary artist of Jamaican and Australian descent who grew up in Mohkinstsis, also known as Calgary, but now gratefully resides on Syilx territory, Kelowna, BC. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and received her BFA in Drawing (with Distinction) from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2017. Bridgemohan’s artistic research engages with her Caribbean heritage through cultural ways of making that reside in the domestic, the body, and the land. Sculpture, textile, and performance invoke anecdotal memories of intimate relational bonds that seek to assert place-based belonging. Photo of artist by Rita Taylor