This project explores Vancouver’s housing crisis through my personal experience of repeated shifts in housing. Each fortune teller represents a house I have lived in, and their position in the space references their location in the city. They are each paired with a photo of the house, printed using the cyanotype method and toned using botanicals scavenged from their gardens. The level of tannins in the botanicals transform the cyanotype’s traditional blue into unpredictable colours, entirely dependent on the plants growing at that location.

It is strange to view houses from the outside/as a stranger who doesn't belong there any more when they were once so familiar, and to be transported back in memories to such a different time in my life. Embedding the soil, leaves, and plants into the cement fortune tellers, and the parallel chemical process that bonds the botanicals to the iron in cyanotypes was a way to process feelings of anxiety about the future and a desire for groundedness and belonging. The botanicals in the cement are already starting to dry out and lose their colour, but their shapes will be imprinted in the fortune teller forever.