Echoes in the Bloom

Installation
2025

Echoes in the Bloom is an art installation created for Remembrance Every Day, a nationwide exhibition organized by the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the World War II. Installed at the Waterloo Public Library Main Branch, the work brings together over 300 ceramic and paper poppies hand-crafted by community members. Using two different sizes of poppies to represent the dits and dahs in Morse code, the arrangement encodes lines of poetry, reflecting on memory, resilience, and the strength found in collective acts of making.

Rows of red poppy flowers made of ceramics and paper on strings hung from a railing at an atrium

Special thanks to the St. John’s-Kilmarnock School, Meii Studio, and Sabrina of Nostalgia Ceramics for organizing community workshops.

The Remembrance Every Day exhibition is organized by the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, with support from MILD Foundation, Veterans Affairs Canada, Rotary Club of Waterloo, Kitchener Conestoga Rotary Club, City of Waterloo Arts Grant, Waterloo Region Community Foundation Community Grant, In Memory of SFC Frank Vera, In Memory of RCAF Flying Officer W.E. Short.

This project received funding from the Ontario Arts Council.