About me.

I’ve lived near water throughout my life — Lake Superior, Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River, and the Atlantic. It’s the industrial waterfronts of these cities that speak to a deep nostalgia, emptiness, and a longing for comfort among the chaos of decay and ordinariness. it’s in this everyday of things that our reality resides. My work asks us to consider what we notice, asserting the energy of the unnoticed, the radiance of the ordinary, and an acceptance of everything within the space our lived reality.

Everyday Abstracted

My work starts with photographs presenting unexpected perspectives of buildings, payphones, recycling bins, sheds, and telephone poles: the things and forms of life, “embedded with us, mostly unnoticed.” I abstracts these forms and imbues them with hectic, vivid light and colour, simultaneously modern and nostalgic. It’s my hope that changing the colour of everyday things forces a new and skewed reality of things, jarring a new perspective. If we can see new perspectives in the everyday, we can also see that acceptance of everything around us is both ordinary and extraordinary.

“Hotson abstracts ordinary forms and imbues them with hectic, vivid light and colour, simultaneously modern and nostalgic. The work asks us to consider what we notice, asserting the energy of the unnoticed, the radiance of the ordinary.”