“44(H) x 50(Y)” is a multidisciplinary body of work that reflects on a life shaped by movement, memory, and regeneration. Reaching the age of 50, and having lived in 44 different houses across Western Canada, this project becomes a creative act of mapping identity through place, reclaiming fragmented memories, and exploring the role of community—past and present—in healing and growth. The body of work includes 44 hand-drafted cyanotype floor plans, pressed botanical assemblages, ceramic vessels, and a collaborative 16mm experimental short film. Through this work, I aim to visualize the emotional residue of space, offer space for difficult memories to be witnessed, and create tangible pathways toward healing—both personal and communal. These works are part architectural blueprint, part self-portrait, part herbarium of resilience. As a survivor of prolonged sexual abuse, revisiting these domestic spaces invites difficult but necessary questions: What does safety look like? How is memory shaped by trauma? Can art offer a new relationship to the past?

Through this project, I offer not only my story, but a space for others to locate themselves

—somewhere between vulnerability, resilience, and transformation

About the Artist

Kari Fisher (she/her) is a multidisciplinary emerging artist based in Merville, BC. Drawing on her backgrounds in interior design, floral design, permaculture, and celluloid filmmaking, her practice explores themes of memory, displacement, and healing. Having lived in 44 homes across Western Canada, Kari’s work reflects a life shaped by constant movement and the search for rootedness. Through cyanotype printmaking, ceramics, botanical assemblage, and 16mm film, she transforms personal history into visual narratives that invite reflection, empathy, and collective dialogue. Her work is deeply influenced by the natural world and the emotional landscapes of domestic space. She is particularly interested in how art can hold space for trauma while fostering restoration and connection.

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