Vein began as a self-exploration project, a way to explore obscuring tangling environments and how the self caught those places, how it can be tangled or hidden. I bought the ribbon in Toronto that day there was a blizzard and a fortune teller on the street told me i had stories to tell. It was important that the model look sweet as honey, that they look like a sleeping princess. It was important they not look angry or pained as I gave her ribbon serpent tongues. She was a huge part of it, Maggie May. Inspiration. Muse. This time we had together really aligned and formed these images, so anything I had that was pre-existing, ribbons, plastic, black gauze,these things took on new meanings with her. It became more about quiet than conflict. In many ways it defused the tension I was originally looking for, but it added something else, a kind of quiet sinister element just under the surface of the water, secrets waiting to be told, to manifest, become…